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?

>>3
There are many people that don't fit into the established roles by being gay, lesbian, transgender, whatever, but aren't willing to throw out their identity tags. Rather than throwing out roles all together, they create new roles, take existing roles and swap them around until they feel they fit their intended identity. Then they fight to make these new roles a part of the norm. The path of least resistance would be to accept yourself and let go of the expectation that there is some established role for you. Others will constantly try to fit you into a role you don't belong, so there will be misunderstandings. If you can't deal with this, then you can start a movement to create a new role that you like better than the others and publicly announce your membership to this role. This deflects the misunderstandings from you to the new role itself. It can also serve as a friendly signal to others in the same category so they feel safe around you or in the case of sexuality, able to engage in a relationship with you. So there are advantages and disadvantages to both. With the new role you are still limited by a role, and without it society will label you with other roles regardless.

>>4
common idiot.