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Has the once proud Paper of Record been reduced to just trolling us?

Via Breitbart: John Nolte — Anti-Science New York Times Uses Gender-Neutral Mx.

The following appeared in a New York Times story over the weekend: “Mx. Hardwick, 27, who prefers not to be assigned a gender — and also insists on the gender-neutral Mx. in place of Ms. or Mr. — is a staff member at Bluestockings.”

How stupid.

You are either a man or a woman. You can “identify” however you like. It’s a free country. If you want to “identify” as a lump of blue cheese from the planet Krypton, knock yourself out. The idea, though, that a newspaper like The New York Times, an outlet that “identifies” as respectable, will play along with this nonsense is something entirely different.

The media is supposed to be fact-based. Reporting is supposed to be fact-based. If I told a New York Times reporter that I “identified” as a Sesame Street Muppet named Hildegard, the reporter would not kow-tow and patronize to me and take me seriously. Truth matters….

The road to fascism is paved with sensitivity. We don’t alter objective truth to spare the feelings of others….

Related:

Daily Caller: Students At N.Y. School Demand Censorship, Gender-Neutral Pronouns

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  1. Alain41 says:

    Wikip: “The gender-neutral honorific, Mx (usually pronounced /ˈmɪks/ (miks) or /ˈmʌks/ (muks)), can be used in place of gendered honorifics in order to provide gender neutrality. Adoption of the honorific has been relatively rapid and thorough in the UK. In 2013 Brighton and Hove city council in Sussex, England, voted to allow its use on council forms, and in 2014 The Royal Bank of Scotland included the title as an option. In 2015, recognition spread more broadly across UK institutions, including the Royal Mail, government agencies responsible for documents such as passports and drivers’ licenses, and several other major banks. In 2015, it was included in the Oxford English Dictionary.”

    I agree with Nolte, but this is where gov’t can influence and cover for, media. If gov’t issues passports and drivers licenses with Mx., then a newspaper can claim that they are following established legal policy. Larger problem is gov’t establishing such a norm. In the U.S., we banished honorifics, Lord, Lady, Duke, etc. But at least those explain something about the person whose name follows. A little bit of who defines marriage issue. When you put Mx on a marriage license, is that the bride or groom. Mix or Mux, means never having to explain.

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