The virtual school says its hands are tied due to Florida’s “don’t say gay” law. However, the teacher has lodged a complaint against it.
The virtual school says its hands are tied due to Florida’s “don’t say gay” law. However, the teacher has lodged a complaint against it.
They’re abbreviations for master and mistress. Of course those are archaic etymologies, but that’s how they evolved into abbreviations.
The strange thing is that Mx is an abbreviation that doesn’t have a basis in a word as far as I know. It’s literally conforming to those heteronormative traditions and adapting them with an “X” bandaid.
The point is that the teacher is non binary and forced to choose an honorific. They wanted to use a neologism because there isn’t an established term and they were fired because of bigotry. It doesn’t really matter if the term makes sense to you or anyone else, it was their choice.
Your comments reek of the same smug shittiness of people who throw a fit about they\them pronouns not being “grammatically correct” when singular they has been in use for ages.
Non binary people exist, and if they are required by their job to use a formal title, they should have one that recognizes who they are.
Your knee-jerk reaction is that any criticism of the word is a criticism of non-binary people. I explicitly made a point to explain that’s not the case. And I used “they” in my first comment, so I have no idea where you’re coming from.
Treating any discussion as black and white and immediately becoming defensive isn’t helping as much as you think.
There are plenty of titles they could use. The issue is this school rejected those other titles too, and that’s not right.
Their comment doesn’t read this way at all. You’re just arguing past them.
Lol, you westerners
Or should I say, westernxs
I kinda feel the same about Xe/Xim. I think the reasoning is just “they have to abide by the same conventions or people won’t get it.” It would be a lot cooler to just fully break away from those traditions and have something more eloquent, but language keeps taking the path of least resistance.
Sounds like a first world problem if I have ever heard of it. I think you can survive going as Ms or Mr.
Mr./Mrs. are evolutions of language, like you said. They don’t really refer to the original words for the most part. Mx. is an evolution of the same language and just as easy to pronounce. Sure, it’s a “bandaid” if you want to call it that, but the English language is 90% bandaids. To rule out this one when there isn’t a good alternative for general use (prof. or teacher would be fine for this person, but not for someone who’s not a teacher) is pretty narrow minded.