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Naming ants "they" to be more "inclusive"
Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:22 pm
Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:22 pm
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Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:44 pm to charminultra
SO much wrong in that article. Why the frick is a songwriter naming new species? That's like having a dumbass like Sheila Jackson Lee in Congress. Oh wait...
ETA:
ETA:
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American singer-songwriter Michael Stipe, of rock band REM, and Douglas Booher of Yale University in America, who chose the name, said it was in honour of their mutual friend, activist and artist Jeremy Ayers, who died in 2016.
Ayers, said to have “blurred gender boundaries in New York’s avant-garde scene”, wrote songs for REM among his other work.
“In contrast to the traditional naming practices that identify individuals as one of two distinct genders, we have chosen a non-Latinised portmanteau honouring the artist Jeremy Ayers and representing people that do not identify with conventional binary gender assignments – Strumigenys ayersthey,” Stipe and Dr Booher said.
“The ‘they’ recognises non-binary gender identifiers in order to reflect recent evolution in English pronoun use – ‘they, them, their’ – and address a more inclusive and expansive understanding of gender identification.”
This post was edited on 5/6/21 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:45 pm to charminultra
Somehow, this is NOT the Bee.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:50 pm to charminultra
Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:52 pm to charminultra
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What in god's name is happening with this world.....
We’ve sown the wind, so we are reaping the whirlwind.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:52 pm to JPinLondon
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The ‘they’ recognises non-binary gender identifiers in order to reflect recent evolution in English pronoun use – ‘they, them, their’ – and address a more inclusive and expansive understanding of gender identification.”
Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:55 pm to JPinLondon
I’m sure the ants will appreciate the gesture....
Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:58 pm to charminultra
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“In contrast to the traditional naming practices that identify individuals as one of two distinct genders, we have chosen a non-Latinised portmanteau honouring the artist Jeremy Ayers and representing people that do not identify with conventional binary gender assignments – Strumigenys ayersthey,” Stipe and Dr Booher said.
Ayersthey??? As a grammar nazi who took several years of Latin, this makes me quite angry
Posted on 5/6/21 at 1:58 pm to Toomer Deplorable
It's the end of the world as we know it.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 2:04 pm to 88Wildcat
Wait, So we turned the ants gay???
Posted on 5/6/21 at 2:05 pm to bird35
The world is a better place because of this. Thank you.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 2:06 pm to charminultra
Is it to be inclusive to other ants... or to the mentally-ill people that will never see the ants who have been saddled with a retarded name in the interest of pandering?
Posted on 5/6/21 at 2:09 pm to charminultra
so does this make The Onion and Babylon Bee no longer parody?
Are they the legit news sites now and everything else is fake?
Where the frick am I?
Are they the legit news sites now and everything else is fake?
Where the frick am I?
Posted on 5/6/21 at 2:13 pm to efrad
Posted on 5/6/21 at 2:19 pm to JPinLondon
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said it was in honour of their mutual friend, activist and artist Jeremy Ayers, who died in 2016.Ayers, said to have “blurred gender boundaries in New York’s avant-garde scene”
Reckon what that guy died from?
Posted on 5/6/21 at 2:27 pm to 88Wildcat
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It's the end of the world as we know it.
What you did there...
Posted on 5/6/21 at 2:27 pm to auggie
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said to have “blurred gender boundaries in New York’s avant-garde scene”
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Reckon what that guy died from?
I'm hoping it wasn't uncontrolled rectal hemorrhaging due to vigorous BBC thrusting.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 2:28 pm to charminultra
The asteroid, it won't be long now.
God has to be sick of our shite by now.
God has to be sick of our shite by now.
Posted on 5/6/21 at 2:29 pm to charminultra
Women are a problem
This post was edited on 5/6/21 at 2:30 pm
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