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I remember as a kid the teachers were desperately trying to make “he or she” a thing and told us the singular “they” would never be acceptable.

I’m personally glad that movement failed.

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looking back, some of my educators were monumentally stupid

OVERSHARING TIME

My body doesn’t burp; when I drink something carbonated I have to physically gag myself with something to get the air out. When I was a kid I didn’t know this and would get pain in my stomach and didn’t understand why.

Coke with my lunch two days in a row resulted in trips to my home room teacher to ask to see the nurse, or go home. My home room teacher crossed her arms and said, “this is the second day in a row you’ve done this to us,” and lectured me about trying to get out of class. I had no way of proving that I was actually in pain. I was angry and scared and couldn’t do anything about it. Do not give me the keys to the time machine or there will be violence.

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18 points

I had a math teacher that was there to coach football… instead of the normal method for balancing equations and such he’d insist you use his wonky play call diagrams.

Which made all the other algebra and trig teachers have re-teach kids coming out of his last class.

Dude was a stereotypical jock that was going to give one of his athletes a free pass for stuffing a friend of mine into a locker. At least until i stuffed the tight end in his locker, instead.

So. How about this. We swap the keys and go all strangers on a train?

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8 points

You sound fun to hang out with. I’m in.

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5 points

Are you a horse ?

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15 points

I had this exact same problem growing up. When I started drinking excessive amounts of beer the pressure became enough to break through, and I finally started burping. That somehow fixed my body completely, and I’ve been able to burp normally ever since, but my God I’ll never forget the pain of being unable to burp. Literally the worst pain of my life

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10 points

I’m glad you can belch now. 🍻

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While we’re oversharing, I had a similar issue:

I had bad asthma as a kid and stress would bring on an asthma attack. An inhaler wasn’t enough, I had to go to the nurse and use this loud, ugly machine called a nebulizer. Obviously, one of the most stressful times in school is during a test, so taking a test could easily trigger an attack. Teachers always begrudgingly wrote me a pass to the nurse and made it clear to me that they “knew” I was faking to get out of the test.

Not one of them got the idea into their heads to just make me take the test with me. I would have been able to take it just fine while breathing through the stupid nebulizer. It’s not like I enjoyed being hooked up to the damn thing or enjoyed not being able to breathe well.

The good news is I only have to have an inhaler now, which takes care of the asthma when it comes up maybe once or twice a year. And that’s only if I have a cold. I hear others are not so lucky.

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3 points

jesus

that sounds awful.

I love how teachers take it personally that you don’t want to do mandatory work lol. anyway. glad you made it out of there.

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8 points

I learned English at school and the first time I encountered singular they was when my teacher explained it to us. Sometimes non native speakers are less prescriptive than native speakers

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No, it’s just been a thing forever, and will always be thing. Those teachers, if they ever existed, which I doubt, were just dumb fucks from Dumbfuckistan.

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Teachers didn’t know vapid influencers would exist.

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107 points

Always liked this one:

But this one is good too…

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Not complaining or calling it out but I’ve seen the words in the 2nd applied to sooo many different comics. I think that’s actually kind of great that it’s so flexible 😆

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25 points

I think it’s originally from Red vs Blue

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27 points

If you’re introducing yourself to me, I only need your name.

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9 points

So you’re going to refer to John by John’s name exclusively? Sounds a bit awkward, but okay.

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I’m tired of calling John, John, every time I refer to Join, but I wasn’t paying attention to John’s pronouns, so now I’m stuck until I have a chance to ask John, when I next see John.

Source: I’ve done this, actually. I hope I was more subtle.

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9 points

Or you could just use “they.” Convenient!

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Remember when we just conversed like human beings and didn’t have all this convoluted nonsense about worrying over pronouns?

If the person is called John, 99.9% of the time, you know what the pronouns would be, because not everyone is terminally online.

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41 points

Roses are red Violets are blue The singular “they” Pre-dates singular “you”

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21 points

Thou shalt use proper pronouns and not be lazy recycling plural pronouns in the singular. What next, are thou planing to use a singular “we” like inbred royalty?

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12 points

Youse guys should use the plural you

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4 points

By chance I actually do come from an area that uses it! Although it’s more of a “yiz” here

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The singular “they” Pre-dates singular “you”

The same way rights were ore-dated by no rights?

‘older’ is not always ‘better’. Make your point, but don’t hinge it on a false comparison.

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The point isn’t to say that the singular they is somehow better than the singular you, it’s to point out that it is not a modern invention. People that dislike usage of the singular they often argue that it is an unnatural change being forced upon the language, when in fact it has been in use for so long that it was used by Shakespeare

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Ok, hear me out, super supportive, but I had an issue when a friend’s husband wanted me to use “their.”

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23 points

What issue? I fail to see how that impacts you negatively in any way.

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So you’re not, in fact, “super supportive” at all then, are you, and are not, in fact, worth hearing out… 🙄

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That comment did not imply any of this in the least

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Don’t use it then.

The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

I couldn’t care less what people refer to me as if I’m not there.

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The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

no? it would be weird to use in a one-on-one conversation, true. but it is fairly common to use the third person pronoun of someone during a group conversation, even while they are there

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I don’t do this, and growing up was taught that it was rude to refer to someone by anything other than their name in a group conversation.

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it is fairly common to use the third person pronoun of someone during a group conversation, even while they are there

But is improper to do so. The proper way to refer to a person who is present is by using their name.

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8 points

“I was with Dan the other day. They forgot their keys at home. They said they had to go back to get them.”

Literally not hard at all?

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“I was with Dan (they/them) and Steve the other day. They hadn’t brought a poster they needed and went back to the car to get it.”

This demonstrates the semantic problem with using “they” as a pronoun: it isn’t clear who went back to the car, (1) just Dan or (2) both Dan and Steve. Nor is it clear who needed the poster and who hadn’t brought it.

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13 points

No no, hear me out.

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Well… that is entirely a you problem. You should do a little soul searching to figure out why it is so difficult for you to pay someone dear to someone you call a friend the bare minimum amount of respect.

Would you be upset if your friends constantly misgendered you, then acted like you were the asshole because you took issue with it?

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