Dear media, my preferred pronouns are hu/hu
Green MP Darleen Tana who is no longer welcome in the party of diversity equity and inclusion is not a she. Despite clearly being XX and having been a she until about…. yesterday.
No. She is a they / them. You’ll never walk alone.
“My pronouns are they / them. I never walk alone.”
The media thought she was taking the piss – in their own words.
You can draw your own conclusion.
Anyways, she’s taking on the Green Party who want to expel her from the party for alleged migrant exploitation. Very important word – alleged.
So 1News who are very woke went along with this grand confusion of “they / them”Darleen Tana is seeking a judicial review of the Green Party and its co-leaders as the independent MP faces the party-hopping legislation potentially being used against them… Tana’s legal moves are the latest twist in the scandal, which began in March after migrant worker exploitation allegations at their husband’s business emerged publicly.
So let’s watch the report – and let’s count how many times the reporter misrepresents the English language in the name of wokeness. She’ll be saying to herself – don’t say her, don’t say she.
“they will undoubtedly be feeling very frustrated..”
Who? The Greens or Darleen? They’re both… er… theys.
6 times!
I take my hat off to Maiki Sherman. That was excellent reporting. To twist and distort the English language so smoothly takes some doing.
The NZ Herald report worked even harder and woker. And I want to read this report to you – and then play a small game with you.
Now the easy way around this whole misgendering issue is to just say the name “Tana”. But after a while most people go to the biological pronouns – he or she, him or her.
So let’s look at parts of the NZ Herald report – and unlike Maiki Sherman, this is a written report so you can do a search and destroy. Search offensive words like he / him / she / her and replace with the preferred pronouns.
Tana quit the Greens after a damning report into their involvement in alleged migrant exploitation at theirhusband’s business. Since then, Tana has sat as an independent MP. The Greens urged Tana to quit Parliament and have been debating whether to use the law against them to force their hand.
At the party’s AGM in Christchurch in July, Swarbrick and Davidson began the waka-jumping process by writing to Tana, saying their resignation from Parliament had distorted the proportionality of the House, as required under legislation. Tana responded to the letter, arguing they did not think the law “could reasonably be invoked” against them.
Now according to the law of genderwoke, (one of my new words for 2024), you can have any of these preferred pronouns. It’s not just they/them for those that never walk alone. It’s quite a list.
But let’s take the ones that a programme targeted at young people in NZ is teaching – this is In Your Skin which is a programme written by two Australian sexologists
So the pronouns could be xe / xem, ze / hir, ey / em, hir / hir, fae / faer, or hu / hu.
Now I’m a bit of an entomologist. I like spiders and ants and creepy-crawlies. I am the go-to person when a daddy long legs or tinsy winsy spider or even a cockroach appears somewhere in the house and my daughters are screaming their head off. Literally. Even the real tiny spiders. It’s like world war 3.
So I may decide that I’m going to identify as hu / hu – but not a bug in the system.
So let’s rewrite the article for someone who identifies as hu / hu – like me.
McCoskrie quit the Greens after a damning report into hu involvement in alleged migrant exploitation at hu wife’s business. Since then, McCoskrie has sat as an independent MP. The Greens urged McCoskrie to quit Parliament and have been debating whether to use the law against hu to force hu’s hand.
At the party’s AGM in Christchurch in July, Swarbrick and Davidson began the waka-jumping process by writing to McCoskrie, saying hu’s resignation from Parliament had distorted the proportionality of the House, as required under legislation. McCoskrie responded to the letter, arguing hu did not think the law “could reasonably be invoked” against hu.
Hu did not think the law “could reasonably be invoked” against hu.
That’s a statement, not a question.
See how crazy this is going to become.
Every personal pronoun of choice is going to simply confuse the English language, confuse the story, and confuse the normal person.
In fact, there was another example of this in TIME Magazine two years ago. They were talking about the author of a highly objectionable and sexually explicit book for young people “Gender Queer”. According to Wikipedia,
Kobabe uses Spivak pronouns (e/em/eir) and identifies as non-binary and asexual.
Spivak pronouns you ask? Yeah, I had to look it up.
The Spivak pronouns are a set of gender-neutral pronouns in English promulgated on the virtual community LambdaMOO based on pronouns used in a book by American mathematician Michael Spivak.
So the tweet said
TIME spoke to “Gender Queer” author and illustrator Maia Kobabe on about eir work, the efforts to restrict access to eir writing, and what ey make of the current cultural moment
Yeah – bet you understood that.
So let’s pretend Maia Kobabe is the Green MP and the NZ Herald are doing their report
Kobabe quit the Greens after a damning report into eir involvement in alleged migrant exploitation at eirhusband’s business. Since then, Kobabe has sat as an independent MP. The Greens urged Kobabe to quit Parliament and have been debating whether to use the law against em to force eir hand.
At the party’s AGM in Christchurch in July, Swarbrick and Davidson began the waka-jumping process by writing to Kobabe, saying eir resignation from Parliament had distorted the proportionality of the House, as required under legislation. Kobabe responded to the letter, arguing e did not think the law “could reasonably be invoked” against em.
That went well.
Does this all matter?
As I’ve been alerting you to it all week, the Law Commission are currently asking for submissions on the issue of whether transgender and non-binary people and people who never walk alone like Darleen or Maia Kobabe who is an eir-head should have special protections under the Human Rights Act and whether those people who believe in biological truth and don’t believe in gender ideology should be deemed to be discriminating and therefore subject to possible punishments.
Misgendering is mentioned almost 50 times in the Law Commission paper. They suggest that:
the [Human Rights Act] could stipulate that misgendering and deadnaming are forms of discrimination that are unlawful.
But apparently they have no problems with InsideOUT or the radical RSE curriculum influencing and undermining students.
Just one last thing.
The NZ Herald who were trying so hard in the morning messed it up by morning tea time.
Tana sought an injunction yesterday to stop the Sunday meeting, when party members were set to decide whether to use the law to oust her, after her resignation from the party.
And on the top rating Breakfast radio show of Mike Hosking’s on Newstalk ZB, there was a whole lot of misgendering going on.
“She’s resigned from the party, but she’s asking the court to tell the party they’re not allowed to have a meeting where the party will discuss whether she’ll be kicked out of parliament. I can only assume she’s going to argue something along the lines of, she has rights to natural justice … but that’s a real stretch, I find it very hard to see how that’s going to hold up.”
Nine times in that whole interview. That is not accidental. That’s intentional misgendering – in my legal woke view. Newstalk ZB should be ashamed of themselves.
But – in BREAKING NEWS! The Dominion Post reports…
Darleen Tana legal wrangling: she’s still an MP, for now, and her pronouns are again she/her
…[Justice] Moore also paused to check with [Tana’s lawyer Sharyn] Green what Tana’s preferred pronouns were. Last month, she indicated she was going by ‘they/them’, but Green told him she would go by ‘she/her’.
But you can’t find that on their site anymore. Nope. Somebody got told off!
It’s now this
Greens cancel meeting after legal action from Darleen Tana
No mention of the pronoun change. It’s still on the Stuff site but The Post (formerly the reputable and credibleDominion Post) didn’t want to talk about it.
The media have just gone back to biological reality – just like that!
Here’s the thing. Where’s the outrage about Tana’s disrespect for preferred pronoun usage. I’m still waiting for the outrage from the media and LGBT activists about abuse of personal pronouns.
Can we literally change them just like that in the space of a month.
Silence from the ‘outrage’ mob. No shouts of bigotry or transphobia or hate or Nazi or TERF or whatever other name they can think of.
Here’s what makes me angry about all of this. A high school math teacher was taken to the Teaching Council and had his teaching registration cancelled after he refused to use the preferred pronouns and name for a 14-year-old student who was in the process of ‘transitioning’ from a biological girl to a boy. The Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand said that teachers must not use their authority to “undermine the personal identity of their learners, or to inappropriately influence them”. But apparently they have no problems with InsideOUT or the radical RSE curriculum influencing and undermining students.
And here’s a former Green MP treating personal pronouns – in my view – like a joke.
Perhaps they are.
Anyway, I’m off to find some bugs.
Signing off from me. Ooops. Hu.
