I have a suggestion for anyone who is asked these days for his or her pronouns:\u00a0Just respond with “I\/me” and “you\/your”.<\/p>\n\n\n
First and second person pronouns work great for all of us. No need to change a thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
Acceptable: “Hi. How are you <\/i>doing?”<\/p>\n\n\n
“I <\/i>am fine. Thank you<\/i>.”<\/p>\n\n\n
“Would you <\/i>like a donut?”<\/p>\n\n\n
“Heck, yes I <\/i>would!”<\/p>\n\n\n
On the other hand, third person pronouns are only used when you are talking about <\/b><\/i>me.<\/p>\n\n\n
Why would I attempt to dictate that you use “he\/him” when I am not around?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
For instance, if you say to your friend something like, “Did you see Steve’s\u00a0<\/i>hair? It looks like he <\/i>cut it himself<\/i>!”, why would I <\/i>presume to exercise control over your <\/i>speech to somebody else?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
The words other people use about me are just one aspect of life over which I have zero control<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I have come to terms with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
I think it would be healthy if everyone did.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have a suggestion for anyone who is asked these days for his or her pronouns:\u00a0Just respond with “I\/me” and “you\/your”. First and second person pronouns work great for all of us. No need to change a thing.\u00a0 Acceptable: “Hi. How are you doing?” “I am fine. Thank you.” “Would you like a donut?” “Heck, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3824,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions\/3824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}