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△ 181｜Slip Carefully
When taking a shower, seeing the reminder on the wall, the strange laugh suddenly did not stop.
In fact, this stalk is already very bad, but it is very interesting to say it at the moment. I can’t recall which class I taught the difference between “he” and “she”. Only then did I realize that personal pronouns are gender-specific. I have always felt that the strict distinction between “he” and “she” in the content of the text is a kind of “help” to the reader, which enables the reader to quickly distinguish the role of the subject of the event in the text. Who is it—and even more, in the news environment, is it more appropriate to express the gender difference of personal pronouns? This is another way of following and restoring the objective reality. But in reality it doesn’t feel that way.
The most “pushing” in the past two years is under the news of those drivers causing accidents. The most taboo thing in the news is to emphasize the gender of the driver involved in the accident. If the word “she” is used, there will inevitably be a group of people who will stand up and shout, “Why do you have to emphasize that it is a female driver, can a male driver not cause an accident?”; if the gender of the entire news is blurred into “he”, or There will be a group of people who will stand up and sarcastically say, “Don’t mention that the male driver is a male driver, and use “he” to refer to it”; I have seen it once, the news did not emphasize any gender issues, just said a The driver who caused the accident rammed into a woman on the main road, and a group of women punched below, saying that as long as it was not a female driver who caused the accident, there would be no writing about a female driver and a male driver. As a result, the news finally reversed. It turned out that the driver who hit the car was a female driver, but the main body of the news knew that no matter what personal pronoun was used, it would anger a group of sensitive people.
The argument about “he” and “she” is like a warning sign “Slip Carefully” on the side of the road. Normal people should understand that it is just to remind passers-by to be careful of slippery ground. But at this time, someone will definitely stand up and express dissatisfaction by pointing to the warning sign: Am I the only one who thinks that this “earth” is a conjunction? Why at this time, this warning sign wants everyone to “glide” carefully, and why everyone must understand it as a noun. “When will the police in the land stand up!”
In the past, some people “spoofed” the content of boxing, which seemed absurd, but I felt that according to the current situation, it is very likely that it will become a reality one day. The content of the boxing is roughly: Why use the gender-obvious word “male” for “kg”? People use the word “kg” in their daily life, which is the best embodiment of the decadent and autocratic patriarchal society, why can’t we use “” Mother Jin”? In the same way, why can’t “public place” be changed to “mother’s common place”, why can’t “announcement” be changed to “mother’s notice”, and “bus” why can’t be changed to “mother’s delivery bus” – well, of course, well, After the word was changed, the meaning might be a little too obvious.
When I usually write a blog, I am too lazy to distinguish between “he” and “she”. On the one hand, I just want to refer to a “person”. More often, it is just in case a party in an astronomy sees me with “” He” wrote an article as a prototype. It would be fine if I just presented the story. People like me will probably write it with a bit of humiliation, or even specify “he” in the humiliating text. If the other party can’t tell the gender from the words, there will be no evidence to prove it. I wrote “he” – shit, after writing this I seem to realize that there is a question, if I admit that I use the word “he” on purpose to obscure the gender, does that mean that the client It can be guessed in reverse that my vague subject was originally “she” – it seems that I will change to a personal pronoun in the future.
Using “it” seems a little disrespectful to the person involved. Although sometimes the subjects I describe are indeed doing things that are inferior to livestock, it is a bit too much to set a person’s personal pronoun as “it” if they are named. “It” is also inappropriate. Obviously I am a character like “It” who likes to torture people. The last thing I can think of is a little bit of respect for “Yu”, at least in this way, when scolding people, I can be a little more polite.
At the time of Yang Jiang’s death, those who followed the trend sincerely and were all in memory of “Mr. Yang Jiang”. There were indeed many people who made jokes, saying that Yang Jiang was obviously a woman, so why did they call her “Sir”. I was prophesying at the time – maybe someone who “punches” will come out soon. Sure enough, someone came out and punched, saying that Yang Jiang was a “teacher”, but why did he use the word “Mr.” with a strong “masculinity” in his honorific title? You think this is absurd, but it really happened on the Internet in Simplified Chinese.
In the future, if someone on the blog wants to humiliate someone, then I’ll still use “怹”.
I have also thought about using “噵”, but this designation is obvious, and it may be easy to get on the “expedited list”.
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