"Concerns We're Heading For 'Misgendering Crisis' As 61% Of Brits Never Ask About Pronouns"

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I can pretty much guarantee that 39% of Brits don't ask about such nonsense even sometimes.

Because it's, y'know, bullshit.

In English, some pronouns are sex-specific; none, however, have anything to do with "gender." Pronouns have genders--but they refer on the basis of sex. People have genders, too: masculine, feminine, or androgynous. These are behavioral categories that have nothing to do with either (a) pronomial reference or (b) declarations. You can declare that you're masculine if you like--but if your actual behavior isn't masculine, then you aren't. Declarations about your sex or gender have no more rational force than declarations about your height and weight. I've encountered many guys well under 6' tall who claim to be 6' 2". They may speak of themselves as if they were, but talk is cheap. And non-constitutive of height. Also: of gender. 

Anyway: that article is a goldmine of facepalmerific bullshit. If facepalms were bitcoins, you could get rich mining that thing. I read it last night, and I remember that there are all sorts of specifics worth excerpting and ridiculing. But in the light of day, I realize that I've wasted too much of my life doing such stuff.

This pronoun bullshit is just one more undeniable indicator that contemporary progressivism has a broken bullshit-detector. Rational people have a reaction to bullshit that's similar to "cognitive dissonance": it generates aversion (or is a kind of aversion in the case of CD). Progressives have adopted a cracked complex of theories and dogmas that confound the operation of their innate bullshit-detectors. In fact, many of them cultivate this--actually working to dampen their aversion to bullshit in order to subordinate rational thought to the dictates of their new religion. People who adhere to old religions do the same thing. But complaining about them seems churlish in current year--the new religion is far more powerful and dangerous.