FragileSurface said:
aLkaLiNE said:
As an Oregonian, I can we are an extremely politically correct state to the point of detriment. I saw a subway commercial where they labeled a 12" sandwhich as a "he" and one of my Facebook feminism friends reposted MASSIVELY over reacting. To me, there is more important topics to worry about than something as stupid and Irrelevent as that. I would have no offense if they labeled that sandwhich as a her. |
Not trying to derail but how do you think your friend would have reacted if an item which exists for the sole purpose of consumption and pleasure for another person was referred to as 'she'. I'm genuinely curious about this.
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She wouldn't have reacted at all because there would be no trigger point. Should someone get triggered when a Ferrari is referred to as a she because "she" is beautiful? I just don't understand how, of everything going on in the world right now, THAT is the molehill someone wants to die on. If you REALLY have an issue over gender positive terms like that, then go picket and protest the entire German language which has gender positivity built into its very language, i.e., many terms have a different word when talking to a him or a her or an it while English only distinguished by saying something like "his" or "hers".
Thats how worthless it is getting upset or triggered. Especially when some women want to deny preferential treatment by western society in aspects that aren't shared with a man, and vice a versa. We should celebrate who we are and how we were born, but thanks to the tide of plastic surgery, one can become as non-distinguished or unique as they'd like. It's a tragedy that we have learned to focus so much on the our looks from the outside as opposed to what's on the inside.
