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Originally Posted by juan valdez
maybe between the three of you, you could come up with a decent answer to the 3 questions i asked
the questions i asked were clear and straightforward. they are fair. if you can't answer them, you should maybe slow down. if you find yourself ducking them, maybe you should have a look in the mirror. are you here to to have discussions or build valid arguments? or are you relentlessly labeling people and coming up with reasons why you know everything, while not knowing everything. i can see why people in politics spin and duck things, but to do it anonymously on a forum is just weird
"so master, theres currently over 70 gender identities on facebook. could you educate everyone on the number of pronouns the bill has approved. the number of identities the bill has approved. and the process in which you formally become one of the identities requiring a new pronoun
i think this would help all these morons understand the situation better
thanks in advance"
Wasn't addressed to me, but if you're talking about bill c16 it doesn't seem to define gender identities in the same way that it doesn't define race, gender or sexual orientation.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublicati...&DocId=8609176
Though peterson isn't really objecting to the bill itself from what i understand, he seems to object to the university of toronto's interpretation which I can't find the documentation for. (got a link?)
I tried searching and the closest match I could find is for the toronto district school board,
http://www.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/0/Abou...20FINAL_1_.pdf
and they specifically recognize trans as the a single non-binary gender identity, with the ze/hir/they combination.
Which, if that is the precedence, that all non-binary identifying people be addressed by ze/hir/they, that it wouldn't be excessively pedantic or difficult to learn.
But even if uoft required an excessive list of pronoun combos - that's not what I see to be the recurring theme of the criticism jordan peterson is making. It seems he's arguing that the university shouldn't be able to tell him how to address people at all, even in the case of male/female.