{"id":13341,"date":"2021-01-04T13:19:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=13341"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:19:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T18:19:40","slug":"they-aint-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townehouse.net\/?p=13341","title":{"rendered":"They Ain\u2019t Heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It has come to my attention that members of a certain political party (which shall remainnameless) have decided it is time to modify our society by removing all gender specific nouns and pronouns from the English language and to replace them with generic gender-neutral words.\u00a0 For example, one would no longer refer to their Mother or Father by that specific title but would, instead, refer to them as \u201cparent\u201d.\u00a0 Also, one would not refer to their brother or sister by those names but would use the generic term of sibling.<\/p>\n

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A member of that same unnamed political party recently concluded a prayer in a official setting with the closing phrase \u201camen and awomen\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0This, of course, makes no sense as there is no such word as \u201cawomen\u201d and is pandering at the very least.\u00a0 The true meaning of the word amen has an interesting etymology but does not have anything to do with the male gender.\u00a0 But then, this is an elected official and to my knowledge one has no educational requirements before throwing one\u2019s hat into the ring.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even think a hat is required.<\/p>\n

Should these unnamed and apparently uneducated politicians get their way, we will need to rewrite pop culture, like how we have been rewriting history, to make the world a better place.\u00a0 For example, the Hollies<\/em> will have to remake \u201cHe ain\u2019t Heavy, He\u2019s My Brother\u201d to \u201cThey Ain\u2019t Heavy, They\u2019re My Siblin\u201d.\u00a0 George Clooney<\/em> will need to remake his movie, now entitled \u201cOh Sibling, Where Art Thou\u201d, and so on.\u00a0 Additionally, we will no longer celebrate Mother\u2019s Day and Father\u2019s Day separately but will have to combine them into one day known as Parent\u2019 Day\u201d.\u00a0 I really am not sure how we are to deal with the clergy and religious as we no longer address a priest as Father or a nun as Sister.\u00a0 Will a Mother Superior now be known as HNWIC (head nun what\u2019s in charge)?<\/p>\n

The lexicographer will be quite busy adding new words to the dictionary, such as womention, womentor, womemory, and womenstruation (maybe it should have been that all along).\u00a0 The new words being added will have room to be included as they will also be busy removing all the gender specific nouns and pronouns.\u00a0 A synonym for insane is mentally ill.\u00a0 It is quite apparent to me that anyone who would support this lunacy is quite obviously womentally ill.<\/p>\n

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Those are my thoughts, what are yours?<\/p>\n

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