Sam Brinton caught stealing luggage at airport

Aldebaran said:

If proper English is important to you, it would be best to use what we've been taught in school. A man is a "he", not a "their".

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Are you actually going to address my point? Or is the whole point of this thread is simply to demonstrate the amount of disdain you have for non-binary folk?

Aldebaran said:

If proper English is important to you, it would be best to use what we've been taught in school. A man is a "he", not a "their".

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There's not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend

W. Shaxpere, A Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 3

The OED traces the singular 'they' back to 1375 CE. A brief history of singular ‘they’ | Oxford English Dictionary

Aldebaran said:

If proper English is important to you, it would be best to use what we've been taught in school. A man is a "he", not a "their".

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"they" has been used as a singular pronoun for a very long time.

Aldebaran said:

If proper English is important to you, it would be best to use what we've been taught in school. A man is a "he", not a "their".

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Anyone can check their New York Times Manual of Style and Usage.

Pommer said:

Anyone can check their New York Times Manual of Style and Usage.

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Maybe the Murdoch Manual of Style says otherwise?

Aldebaran said:

Any mental gymnastics to avoid calling a man a "he" or "him".....

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Gymnastics? It's literally the lowest hurdle to refer to people as they wish to be addressed. No avoidance is required -- I (and many other men) prefer to be addressed as he/him.

Aldebaran said:

You didn't make a point for me to address.

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Sure I did, that Sam Brinton's office has nothing to do with the actual handling of nuclear material and thus this isn't the big national security issue you were trying to make it out to be.

100% of mass shooters are male but that DOES NOT indicate some type of deficiency.

One nonbinary person takes one suitcase "well obviously there were signs"

Aldebaran said:

but that fact is being ignored to make brinton sound like the real victim here, which he is not.

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Not that I've seen. So far we all seem content that they're relieved of their duties until this matter is settled.

But yes, we've pointed out your inability to be polite, something even the NY Post managed in the OP.

Aldebaran said:

What you refer to as "polite" is better-known as "politically correct".

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That's what I say when i fart loudly at the dinner table.

I always tell my guests that "politeness" is just a term invented by Big Fart to repress us.

rambot said:

That's what I say when i fart loudly at the dinner table.

I always tell my guests that "politeness" is just a term invented by Big Fart to repress us.

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That has to be the funniest thing I've read all day. My side hurts.

rambot said:

That's what I say when i fart loudly at the dinner table.

I always tell my guests that "politeness" is just a term invented by Big Fart to repress us.

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Ben Franklin hoped we could all Fart Proudly.

Look, "they" tends to hit the ear weird when used to refer to a singular person; but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make an effort to use a desired pronoun.

Can we get back to the person in question and ponder whether what they did was intentional, and what ramification may or should come about from it?