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I expect simple behaviours here. Friendship, and love. Any advice should be from the perspective of the person asking, not the person giving! We have had to make new membership moderated to combat the huge number of spammers who register
What is interesting in the list is the absence of a few terms such as "male", "female", "boy" and "girl". (Although male-to-female and female-to-male are in place.) And the "pronouns" mentioned in the article you cite are absent. He, she, heshe, shehe, etc.
How a first grader is expected to navigate the swamp is tough to imagine.]]>ChrisR2017-08-30T23:34:48-00:00Re: A couple of T topics
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ChrisR wrote on Thu, 31 August 2017 00:34
How a first grader is expected to navigate the swamp is tough to imagine.
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I don't think kids worry about labels too much: they just relate to people as they find them! And most adults are pretty understanding about helping kids work out the label thing whenever it rears its head. I honestly don't see this as being any more complicated than religion (Evangelical, Quaker, Protestant, Catholic, Hindu, Jain, Pagan/Wiccan, Sunni, Shiite, Jewish ....), diet (omnivore, meat-eater, vegan, vegetarian, pesetcarian, fructarian, "Primitive" diet, ovo-lactarian, kosher, hallal ...) or national/ethic identity (English, Black British, London Chinese, Scottish-Italian, ...). Most of the time, people just relate to other people as individuals with individual quirks, habits, and needs: labels only come into it when there's a need to establish a personal/social identity for oneself*, or when one needs to categorise people for statistical purposes.
*my own personal/social identity for the past three and a half decades has been "out gay man", for example ... though I may reluctantly have to add "older" to that!]]>NW2017-08-31T11:49:40-00:00