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Kimmio said:
I just came across this. It's a new pronoun gaining traction among transgender people. "Mx." I think it sounds good, it's ingenious, but I wouldn't be using it so that isn't really up to me.
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It's also unpronounceable without having to think about. Mux? Mix? If someone wants to use it, by all means they can. They just need to plan on spending the rest of their life explaining how to say it.

And I'm with Rita. Call me by my name for God's sake. I hate Mr.
 
Kimmio said:
What if you were in a formal setting @RitaTG, where pronouns are commonly used? If someone were to err, in a formal setting - like, if you were a schoolteacher and kids were addressing you with a pronoun like they're used to - or someone was addressing you in a letter, would you prefer Ms. or Mx.? I hope you don't mind me asking. I too prefer to just be called by my first name but in formal letters I am usually addressed by "Dear Ms. Surname". It's common business practice by default. My name happens to be a gender neutral first name, actually, but Ms. usually assumed anyway.
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In a formal setting ...... hmmmmm .... either one would be fine......
The notion here is that the person addressing me is trying to address me in a way that is most suitable for my gender so whichever one (Ms or Mx) that the person is comfortable with is fine for me.
I would not mind if some chose Ms and others Mx ..... it is the intent that matters to me.
Thank you for asking :)
Rita
 
Mendalla said:
It's also unpronounceable without having to think about. Mux? Mix? If someone wants to use it, by all means they can. They just need to plan on spending the rest of their life explaining how to say it.

And I'm with Rita. Call me by my name for God's sake. I hate Mr.
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That's like asking how to pronounce, say, Mrs. though (as an example). Is it Missus? Muruss? Mriss? etc. My point is - if Mx. were commonly used, agreement would increasingly exist as to how it's to be pronounced.
 
Pr. Jae said:
That's like asking how to pronounce, say, Mrs. though (as an example). Is it Missus? Muruss? Mriss? etc. My point is - if Mx. were commonly used, agreement would increasingly exist as to how it's to be pronounced.
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...and that is why just my name is best for me LOL
 
Pr. Jae said:
That's like asking how to pronounce, say, Mrs. though (as an example). Is it Missus? Muruss? Mriss? etc. My point is - if Mx. were commonly used, agreement would increasingly exist as to how it's to be pronounced.
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But Mrs. is actually a short form of a word that is no longer spelled out (Missus or variations thereof), just as Mr. is short for "Mister" (or "Master" for boys) and that provides your pronunciation. "Mx", like "Ms", is made up and isn't short for anything, hence the problem of pronunciation. Yes, it will likely be standardized as time goes on but, really, we should create a neologism (new word) to replace missus and mister first, then shorten it. That way, we have a pronunciation built in. Starting from the short form and then figuring out the word is back asswards to my eye.
 
Yes, let's imagine a word, preferably beginning with "M", that means "none of your damned business". :rolleyes:
 
That'd be missus Hype as you see her lower wasted parts going along with the following bummer ... but quenched and spilled at nuor Leans ... when meeting the clear ocean currents ... albeit salty ... presaging pickles for those getting into it ...
 
Luce NDs said:
That'd be missus Hype as you see her lower wasted parts going along with the following bummer ... but quenched and spilled at nuor Leans ... when meeting the clear ocean currents ... albeit salty ... presaging pickles for those getting into it ...
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ROFL!!!!! :ROFLMAO:
I need to go and wash my mind and I suggest you do so as well LOL
 
You've heard of the string entitled "Legends" ... Rita ... it was a hawg in Hebrew praxis ... a bake 'n spirit unseen and obscure?
 
Kimmio said:
Tru Wilson named one of Vancouver's most powerful people...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...of-vancouver-s-most-powerful-people-1.3323214
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And 20th out of fifty, too, ahead of David Suzuki and Rick Hansen among others. I'm surprised I haven't heard more about her. What a great young lady. Reminds me of human rights and development activist Craig Kielburger who started his activist career at a similarly young age and is now (here I go, feeling old again) 32 and still at it.

Here's an earlier CBC story from last year that gives more details of her fight with the Vancouver Catholic School Board.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...olicy-in-vancouver-catholic-schools-1.2709429
 
Last, year, I did start a thread about her (and we discussed the differences in Catholic schools here and in Ontario and other provinces - they receive some public subsidy I think, for some students, but they are otherwise private schools). I remember at the time being impressed with both her, and how quickly and progressively the Catholic school board here responded. Although, if not for her, they likely wouldn't have.

http://wondercafe2.ca/index.php?thr...-at-vancouver-catholic-schools.368/#post-7892
 
Interesting and relevant story from recent weeks:

Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski has come out as trans (formerly known as Andy Wachowski), following in the footsteps of her sister Lana (formerly Larry). The two are quite a team, producing, writing, and directing some cutting edge, if weird, movies and TV. Their TV series Sense8 features a trans character played by a trans actress as one of its leads, which may be a first for television (and is likely due to the Wachowskis involvement). It's a Netflix original so you can find it on there. Season 1 is out, season 2 is in production.
 
Mendalla said:
Interesting and relevant story from recent weeks:

Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski has come out as trans (formerly known as Andy Wachowski), following in the footsteps of her sister Lana (formerly Larry). The two are quite a team, producing, writing, and directing some cutting edge, if weird, movies and TV. Their TV series Sense8 features a trans character played by a trans actress as one of its leads, which may be a first for television (and is likely due to the Wachowskis involvement). It's a Netflix original so you can find it on there. Season 1 is out, season 2 is in production.
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Lana is so limnal, mercurial & outrageous -- love her smile & hair

Now she has a sister -- even cooler -- it seems their fiction & themselves have blended -- very much like it seems happens in the world (in various dyerse things as religion, rituals, UAP phenomenon, synchronicities, psi it seems that there is something definitely real going on & that it has something very deeply to do with reality itself & it hovers around not brute facts but, rather, meaning as an intrinsic part of reality) -- despite various human agencies that try to say otherwise

And I've enjoyed a bit of Sens8 -- fun Science Fiction -- one of my favourite storytellers is involved (the creator of Babylon 5 hisself)

unconditional love is risen!
 
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I brought up the Danish Girl on another thread - my stepdad watched it with me and as I posted about him having questions after I thought I'd bring them up here. He's 10 years older than my (biological) parents, late 70's, and the "T" part of LGBT is still new territory for him. He and I talked the next day about how some people feel they are in the wrong body and that science has discovered this is a biological occurrence, and we also talked about how hard this must've been for not only the main character, but his wife. They obviously loved each other very much.

I was thinking about that - they had an active sex life before he discovered he was trans and at the beginning his cross dressing was a "kink" for the both of them. Then (and my stepdad said this too) it became like an obsession to him - but his wife eventually sided with him that that was indeed who he (actually she) was - yet was who he was before when he made love to his wife not "real"? Because it was portrayed as real. Is it possible that for some people it is more of an obsession than a biological occurrence? I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings with this question.

When I was young my dad and stepmom (my other parents) had a friend who told them at a party (I was there) that he was a cross dresser, had a lot of women's clothes - his wife who was there accepted this - and this was all very eccentric and interesting. As a kid it went over my head anyway. His wife was a big Bowie fan too. This was an otherwise typical hippy turned "yuppie" couple. And so what makes him feel like a woman when dressed up as opposed to someone feeling they are a woman? Because in the movie that's how it started / was discovered - was when he started dressing as a woman.
 
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Kimmio said:
I was thinking about that - they had an active sex life before he discovered he was trans and at the beginning his cross dressing was a "kink" for the both of them. Then (and my stepdad said this too) it became like an obsession to him - but his wife eventually sided with him that that was indeed who he (actually she) was - yet was who he was before when he made love to his wife not "real"? Because it was portrayed as real. Is it possible that for some people it is more of an obsession than a biological occurrence? I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings with this question.
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Maybe she was both L and T...?
 
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