this psyop probably began before I was born,
but when i was going thru elementary school, and supposedly learning “English”
i distinctly remember these absolutely jarring sentences that just had really weird pronoun useage,
for example, the sentence opened with
(a person, presumably a man, but later revealed to be a woman) in a (traditionally male dominated field) (does something), (insert female pronoun) (the big implied gender reveal)
the fireman got in her fire truck
the English language, was once highly biased, in the sense that ordinary, non-specific pronouns etc were given male pronouns,
fire-man
congress-man
but even our story-telling, in its most basic form, favors male pronouns
he him his
but then along come the pronoun police,
forcing DEI on everyone
male pronouns aren’t “inclusive” enough
now even a fire-man is a fire-person
today, in 2026 we associate pronoun weirdness with trans and non-binary
and looking back on it now, all of these English classes seemed to be built around pronoun progressivism
each year they move the needle a little more,
we start out with female firemen,
and we “progress” until one day we have pregnant men and “chest feeding”
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in the comments below, please describe if your English lessons felt the same way
Did they use gendered pronouns in very awkward manner?
Should we throw away all these DEI pronoun police propaganda?
Should we go back to using highly biased and highly exclusive male centered, generic pronouns?
Should we go back to just saying that
the fireman got in his firetruck?
Call me a dinosaur, but I still use the masculine pronoun 'he' when referring to humanity in general. "To each his own." Etc.
EDIT: Added thought, I highly recommend people reading the Appendix to Orwell's "1984" on the "Newspeak" language spoken in the book. It's a powerful discussion on language and the control of language: https://kickapooclark.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/8/5/5085586/the_principles_of_newspeak_orwell.pdf
interesting review of language study; adam in the Hebrew is humankind, mankind, inclusive of male & female. When delineating male & female, both made in the image of the Creator, terms were given zakar (male) and neqebah (female).
Adam (mankind) was not meant as a sexist, male-dominant term, as both men and women were meant to govern and be caretakers of the world.
By removing traditional terms, femenists do not elevate women. They focus on terms without understanding how men and women can work together as adam together, both male & female, different, yet not fragmented from the wholesomeness intended.
interlinear English & Hebrew in case anyone would like to study this perspective https://biblehub.com/interlinear/genesis/1-26.htm
Unfortunately, the regression is much further than that. The "until" is the complete loss of who you are and where you came from, complete loss of anything meaning anything anymore - so you much more easily accept the eventual controls that will be put upon us (though more likely our grandchildren).
No. We were taught that mankind was inclusive of both sexes.
Yep. Females are wo men. It’s still in there.
I'm 53, and granted I remember little of earlier English classes, I don't recall anything along the lines of ____man and her.
Yes, we should just go back to fireman, postman, etc etc. Call me old-school, but IMO just because it's ____man, doesn't necessarily imply it's a man.
Right. There are only humans. There are no huwomans.
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When I worked in a post office, one of the men substituted for a woman's route. Along the way he overheard some kids saying "Hey Mom! We got a boy mail lady!"
Pretty easy to find the history, as it's been an overt and well-documented part of the feminist agenda since the 70s, but only gaining traction in the 90's. A big part of the psychological language wars, expanding outward in every direction, including the stupid latinx push and capitalizing black but not white.
I'm old enough that I escaped grade school before this crap started up.
having gender specific pronouns for things in language? so like german, french and spanish? italian I believe as well....
Man: the human race : humankind
You can argue that "fireman" has nothing to with gender, and I do. I also don't care if people want to use firewoman, even though I don't think it makes any sense to do so. Definitions matter.
Working fire trainings is difficult the we days. We’ll usually use firefighter…help reduce reeeeeeiiinnnggg.
Pita since there are more syllables. Takes more time.
I see a lot of the women in Minneapolis protesting against ICE have got penile frostbite.
Actually they now call them firefighter's.
We did then too.
The PC police, language started in 1992 or so with the serial rapist & serial killer from Arkansas.