Non-gender entity sues it's employer $500k b/c they referred to it as a woman.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/02/gender-neutral_employee_sues_f.html

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Leeches like this certainly don't help the cause of equality.

 

500k for humiliation... wow.

 

Also not to be the offensiveness police (but who am I kidding?)... but calling someone "it" is pretty offensive. The general term is accepted as "they" at this point unless the person has another pronoun they wish to be referred to as. In case you care (I know you don't.)

 

That would be far too humanizing.

 

bigot.

 

What a cvnt.

Not offensive cause it is not a woman, right?

 

Don't you mean "Not offensive cause they is not a woman, right?"

 

they aren't

 

That's not only grammatically incorrect when speaking of one person, unless "they" are conjoined twins, but it's ridiculously self-serving and less accurate than the alternatives that were objected to.

He, she, that person. Those are the options. Anything else screams drama queen/king.

BTW, I self-identify as a different animal each day. If you don't guess correctly and address me accordingly I'll sue!

That person should be grateful that person was hired even though that person refused to fill out that person's application completely, and grateful that person was not fired for crying regularly at work. That person clearly has severe mental/depression issues and should have sought out a doctor rather than an ambulance chaser.

 

That person has a clearly female name, so use it at the risk of a $500,000 lawsuit.

 

"Self-identify" should top next year's list of words to banish.

Here's this year's list:

http://www.lssu.edu/banished/current.php

 

Hi.....YOU!

 

I'm just telling you what the accepted pronoun is. Grammar, and accuracy, are in the eye of the beholder.

I'll make sure to tell the LGBTQ community that some old crank living in eastern Oregon has it all figured out for them.

Lame.

I don't think the person should have sued. But to chalk up someone's emotions for being mistreated at work to mental illness is you just being a dick. And yes, asking people repeatedly to not refer to you as X but they keep referring to you as X is mistreatment.

 

That's a load of crap. "She" is the accepted pronoun. Accepted suggests that most people accept it, which is clearly not the case. Most people have never even heard of such a silly idea, definitely way less than 1% of the world's population, and even the LGBTQ community is about evenly split on it.

Don't blame me for 100+ centuries of language development.

There was no mistreatment, just typical workplace where people speak English to each other. Referring to a woman as "she" is not mistreatment. It is proper English. It is accurate. In most common uses it has no applicable substitute.

It appears she was liked by her coworkers and there is no sign that anybody meant to insult her. They (proper use of the word "they") have no duty to speak gibberish just because somebody else demands it.

She is either a woman or intentionally goes to great lengths to appear that she is a woman, and repeatedly compared herself to female celebrities establishing that she truthfully identifies as a woman.

She either has serious mental issues which is common when people can't determine what gender they are, or she's a conniving, money-grubbing waste of space. Evidence points toward the latter.

 

Within the community that this actually affects, it is accepted to use "they" if you don't know the preferred pronoun. Many people also use "they" when you don't know the gender of someone you are talking about. "The bus driver was rude to me." "Really? What did they say?"

lol, don't bring up language development if you aren't willing to accept new things

I guess you think that kind of behavior is normal:

"Valeria Jones alleges in a lawsuit that co-workers repeatedly called Jones “miss,” “lady” and “little lady” despite explanations that Jones “was not a female or a male and that the term was unwelcome.”"

You've figured out her dastardly secret using logic! No wait, you fail at reading comprehension:

"Workers also directly said Jones looked like a woman and made female celebrity comparisons, the suit states."

I can't wait for your generation to die off. No offense.

 

I've already given this advice to my daughter, after reading this post. I'd love to know her teacher's reaction to this.

 

Right, because the adult world should be run at a grade school level. Shit is a little more nuanced than the fourth grade.