Gender stuff

What's with the gender stuff? Especially the tendency of some posters to use ``ey'', ``them'', et cetera. Am I missing some fad that you guys are getting yourselves into in your real life OR some other online forum/community?

I am aware of the LGBT movement and whatnot, so that's that? Some of us here are part of this movement? Is it because of your ``openmindedness'', or are you a lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender?

Or perhaps it's some semantics enthusiast who longs for a gender-neutral spoken language?

If you want my sincere opinion, I think this whole thing is dumb. As dumb as getting a hissy fit on the use of the word ``nigger''. (or ``jew'')

Honestly I want to believe that /prog/ is populated by smart beings who don't have such stupid intellectual preconceptions. But you are lucky if such are your intellectual preconceptions: It's easy for others to point them out to you, and it's easy for you to understand them. What about me? I have no popular misconceptions. All my misconceptions are dark corners in an otherwise lit room. Nobody will point them out. Will I find out by myself?

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* Yes, but so far only one way is working: enforce social laws that stabilize the male and female roles within the family.
* LGBT and feminism decrease birth-rate not only through encouraging non-straights never to "straighten out", but also through deteriorating moral values in the supposedly straights. "Oh I don't want to have children, I'm an independent woman and my career is the priority" "Oh I don't want to get my girlfriend pregnant, she'll make me spend my money on the kid" "Oh I wanna be a sissy, who says I have to be strong and protect my woman?" etc etc.
* Gay couples that raise children are a negligible minority, but promoting feminism in the society affects the majority
* A high birthrate is shit but shit survives while non-shit dies. It's the law of life: only the most prolific survive.
* "maintain self sufficiency as a nation and enforce the borders so when the rest of the world falls into famine you don't get flooded" - but that's not possible because all the hippies and socialists continually spread the "humans are all equal" bullshit, which leads to sending all your money to starving children in Uganda and wasting your taxes on welfare for immigrants so they can make babies without getting a job. It's very hard or impossible to limit overpopulation or immigration in a democracy, as the contemporary Western civilization shows us.