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.

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          We literally made up Ms., Mrs., and Mr.

          That’s how language works, we get to make it up as we go along.

          How do you think we got here??

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              Oh I get it, you’re just in denial about modern gender theory. Good luck with your rocks. The trick is to bang them together.

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        As opposed to commonly accepted titles. Not made up, flavor of the day nonsense. Your generation can put up with this shit after mine is gone. Good luck, you are most definitely going to need it.

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      Here’s an idea- let’s not care if it’s fucking stupid and call people what they want to be called?

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      All titles are “made up,” and Mx. as an honorific has been around for almost fifty years. A better question would be why our two main honorifics for people are so pointlessly gendered.

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          Your claim as to its history is simply not true, and its use has, obviously, been mostly limited to the community that generated it. Did you expect Ronald Reagan to use it in his inauguration speech?

          Other than that, I don’t see what point you’re actually trying to make here.

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        There’s words that develop organically and then there’s words that people make up to validate the feelings of women who would have been emos like 10 years ago. Neopronouns and titles like this are stupid and no person outside the progressive bubble will ever use them.

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          Organically developed, like, a community making a new word that fills a lexical need to describe a concept? Sounds a lot like “Mx.” to me. What’s stupid about it?