I am scolded. It seems that in my ignorance I have demeaned the personhood
of the Chelmsford crown court judge Patricia Lynch QC by referring to her
as "him". In my own defense I assert that pronouns aren't nouns, they're
like substitute teachers -- no one respects and few obey them. They're
like working class people, handy to have around but lacking all panache. At
times they're allowed to be the Subject of a sentence or the Object of a
sentence or clause, or the Object of a Preposition, but everyone knows
they're just stand-ins. Pronouns are Second Class Citizens when it comes
to Parts of Speech and to refer to someone by the wrong gender pronoun is
not only a grammatical sin, it demeans them and sexuality itself through
erroneous referencing. It denigrates sexuality itself. What could be more
embarrassing than being misidentified genderwise by second-class part of
speech (a mere pronoun). Why do we have different gender forms at all
except to draw attention to one's gender because sex is the most important
thing to us and about us. . Everything comes down to sex, Everything.
Sex, sex, sex. It's all about sex -- make that SEX. Get it right or get
the hell out of Dodge. I am contrite.
