The virtual school says its hands are tied due to Florida’s “don’t say gay” law. However, the teacher has lodged a complaint against it.
“I was told that professor was not okay, Dr. was not okay for me because I didn’t have a Ph.D., but there are lots of people at FLVS who do use Dr., which, coincidentally, is also in violation of the same law I got disciplined for,” Vary said. They were told the other acceptable courtesy titles were Mrs., Ms., or Miss. Using “teacher” was also out of the question.“
“We’re going to refuse every attempt at compromise, and force you to choose between abandoning your principles or your career. Why? Because we’re bastards. Fuck you.”
Serious question, though: how does one pronounce Mx.?
Serious question, though: how does one pronounce Mx.?
I use it and pronounce it like “Mix”
There has to be someone with the last name of Tape using this somewhere right.
Matosis
Thank you
the term you’re looking for is “schwa” or ə
it’s the neutral vowel sound that marks an unstressed syllable.
I always pronounced it with a soft x like ‘Mish’
I usually hear it as “mix”.
Same.
We’re going to refuse every attempt at compromise, and force you to choose between abandoning your principles or your career.
Remembers me of something we’ve already heard, at least in EU, a couple of years ago.
Huh. What? Maybe it’s stuck in my subconscious. I don’t remember it.
Doesn’t MX also stand for motocross? Like XC for crosscountry?
Motocross Frizzle kinda suits Ms. Frizzle
I wonder how much pain and misery she put her better half through. Someone just wants to live their life without being shrunk down or going to Venus every weekend.
I keep reading it as Mixter.
That exactly without the ter
Mixter and Mixus, much like theydies and gentlethem.
It’s mex as in tex mex, duh
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Mix, like a mix of genders.
Nothing says “small government” quite like being fired from your job because of your name.
Small government for rich, white
landbusiness owners.Big brother for everyone else.
🌏🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
Small gov’t has always meant a consolidation of power, so things are easy to control.
They were told the other acceptable courtesy titles were Mrs., Ms., or Miss. Using “teacher” was also out of the question.
After being denied Teacher, Professor, or Dr. as the title (the last because they did not have a PhD even though evidently others in the school go by Dr. without a PhD without discipline). And note that “Mr.” was apparently not an option?
The school’s hands weren’t tied. They appear enthusiastic.
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Only if it’s approved
Only if the speech is conservative
You don’t have free speech in a childrens class room.
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I had no idea Mx was a thing
Well now you know so if you meet someone using Mx you won’t knee jerk fire them.
This was my first time hearing of it too.
I had a brainfart and thought this had something to do with MX linux. Carry on…
What the fuck it it anyway?
“Mix”, basically.
It’s just replacing the second letter in Mr or Ms with an X as a neutral variable
Ah, I still have a bunch of those from when I was a kid. Either tape or CD
I got you back to zero but good luck. It’s not okay to pick on ANYONE not a white dude. So. Stop it. Also, every cd I burned in the early 00ts had for its 4th track metallicas “unforgiven” as both a homage and a fuck you.
Like Latinx (though apparently most Latin American people don’t really like this from the last survey I saw). It’s a genderless way to refer to someone. You replace the gendered letters with x (like the most common variable name in math is, I assume, where it comes from).
It has to be the stupidest thing I’ve read all day
I’m getting to that age where there’s shit that’s weird and I “don’t get it”. My reaction to “Mx” is a resounding “… alright”.
It doesn’t effect, inconvenience, or cost me anything to say. I can think of no good reason not to address someone “Mx” if they ask me to.
How do you even say it, what is its purpose, why does it matter? All of the possible ways I can think of pronouncing this sound absolutely stupid, same with fucking Latinx. There’s no actual way to pronounce the fuckin word
I don’t understand trans people because I have never met one because they are the smallest group of people they could find to harass/hate. Which is insanity to me. I can’t overstate how unafraid I am for my children of a dude in a dress reading them “three billy goats gruff “Why the fuck make up monsters when churches exist!?
Because you create fear of those monsters that don’t exist by blowing up the image of those monsters to divert the monsters that exist within your own belief system.
“Trans people are the problem with pedophilia.” You do that to those you have indoctrinated, young people with no mind of their own, and people who statistically fall into a category of superstition and believing in figments of their imagination, Big Foot, Aliens, God and you fuel that fire with hate with things like, "the atheists want our voices to go unheard so we should kill your friendly woke white woman that supports your friendly neighborhood poorly mistreated and culturally shit on Blackman/woman. You fuel that with hate until the minority becomes the target in your political and religious agenda to spread, “love in the name of Jesus Christ, or whatever religion is popular.” Because if the enemy is justified by your power and money and beliefs then the mass takes to ignoring the issues within your own system of power and money.
So you tell your party or system, “be afraid because if we don’t target them first. They will target you, your guns, your wealth, your god, everything you believe. Everything you have to abuse the power you have now.” You do it because it keeps you in power.
Fuck cons and fuck republicans and if you are reading this and going, “uh why I never…” Then you are a port of the problem. As yourself when is the last time someone who supported the color of the rainbow truly targeted you or your children. The answer is that person is more likely to be killed by you or your affiliates and so the answer is probably never. Now as yourself the last time someone who supports the confederate flag ran over a group of protestors. Fuck you too if you believe trans people, black people, or anyone that doesn’t believe in your saving God and political party is the problem because a woman should have a right to an abortion and you think your voice is going unheard when there is no law that says if you keep your kid you are against the law. Fuck you if you just support in killing as many people as possible but your answer is, “we should support our own first.” But you will complain about your taxes that supports a fuck ton of military power in the country but you don’t want to use it to protect others but are fine with fueling the weapons we have to protect our own and more.
Fuck you if you if any of this pisses you off because you just can’t face the fact that your politics and God don’t love. They hate. Fuck you and the white ass elephant you road in on and refuse to acknowledge in the room.
I believe in aliens
Also Florida: “Why do we have such a teacher shortage?”
I know it’s too late, but how about “Coach _____”?
How about basic respect?
How about sensei?
Senpai
I’m not trying to be negative but shouldn’t coach be reserved for people who actually coach something? I think teacher should have been available.
Paging Bostock v. Clayton County
Mx. is a confusing title. How is it pronounced? “X” is an obnoxious letter choice to try to genericize gender.
But the article shows this teacher tried several other reasonable titles, like “professor” and “teacher” that were also denied. That’s ridiculous, and clearly just targeting them.
You not knowing how to pronounce something isn’t reason enough for it not to exist.
I’m not saying it is, but it should be enough to start a discussion on whether there’s a better, more easily pronouncable term while we’re in a discussion about titles.
If I really think about it, what makes Mr. Or Ms. any easier to pronounce? They are actually a bit less intuitive because they are abbreviations.
As far as two letters go, I feel like Mx. is just one step removed from Mix, so it seems easy to me. Perhaps Mr. and Ms. are just easier to accept because we have lived with them our whole life. A lot of the English language seems weird when we step outside of it.
Mr. is derived from master and Ms. is derived from mistress. Their pronunciation is derived from their etymology.
I agree though that common usage plays a part.
This dang language keeps evolving, doesn’t it?
“I was told that professor was not okay, Dr. was not okay for me because I didn’t have a Ph.D., but there are lots of people at FLVS who do use Dr., which, coincidentally, is also in violation of the same law I got disciplined for,” Vary said. They were told the other acceptable courtesy titles were Mrs., Ms., or Miss. Using “teacher” was also out of the question.
Teacher should have been available.
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Made up titles are fucking stupid.
As opposed to naturally occurring titles?
Ms/Mrs/Mr all reflect objective truths. Mx reflects how the person feels.
We literally made up Ms., Mrs., and Mr.
That’s how language works, we get to make it up as we go along.
How do you think we got here??
As opposed to commonly accepted titles. Not made up, flavor of the day nonsense. Your generation can put up with this shit after mine is gone. Good luck, you are most definitely going to need it.
Hypothetical question:
I have a friend named Richard. He prefers to be called Rich but his boss calls him Rick.
Should his boss adjust to call him Rich because that is what he prefers, or should he just accept being called Rick because it is a commonly accepted nickname for Richard?
That’s a name, not a title. You don’t get to choose titles, they reflect objective truths.
Exactly, those titles have meaning that reflect “objective truths”. E.g. I don’t conform to society’s male or female gender roles or expectations.
It’s almost as if language exists to convey information and has been evolving with the constantly changing society that uses it.
… or was your comment an appeal to made-up semantics because you don’t actually have a compelling argument?
Follow well established societal mores, do not change them for .001%.
Answer the question. Why reply just to dodge it? Could have simply not engaged. It’s so weird to me.
I did give a valid and correct answer to the question. You either didn’t understand or know I’m right so dropped back to the default… ItS sO WeIrD tO mE
So, answer it? Rich or Rick? Both are well established.
So what would you call him?
All titles are “made up,” and Mx. as an honorific has been around for almost fifty years. A better question would be why our two main honorifics for people are so pointlessly gendered.
It has barely any history prior to 10 years ago. Just because some nobody said it once in the 1970’s doesn’t mean its been colloquially around for 50 years. The source of it “being around from the 1970’s” is a dubious article written in 2015. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11597192/Whats-it-like-to-be-a-Mx.html
Your claim as to its history is simply not true, and its use has, obviously, been mostly limited to the community that generated it. Did you expect Ronald Reagan to use it in his inauguration speech?
Other than that, I don’t see what point you’re actually trying to make here.
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You just read an article about a non-binary person, so I think we can assume they are, indeed, “a thing.” Something tells me you don’t interact with a lot of queer people anyways, so your acceptance of their terms of address feels pretty irrelevant.
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How do you avoid yourself?
There’s words that develop organically and then there’s words that people make up to validate the feelings of women who would have been emos like 10 years ago. Neopronouns and titles like this are stupid and no person outside the progressive bubble will ever use them.
Organically developed, like, a community making a new word that fills a lexical need to describe a concept? Sounds a lot like “Mx.” to me. What’s stupid about it?
Organically developed
making a new word
Qed
Try reading a book that’s a few decades old. Language evolves. Though wonder if you read books.
“Read a book sweaty 💅💅” 🤓
Here’s an idea- let’s not care if it’s fucking stupid and call people what they want to be called?
Call me big master pimpin’. I will request you be fired if you do not
I want to be addressed as “your highness”, can you do that for me? Would be pretty bigoted if you don’t, just saying
Sure, your highness. I have no problem with that. What difference does it make?
Here’s a better idea why don’t the few conform with the masses rather than the other way around. That’s some bullshit I’ll never do.
You want people to conform more? Do you live in the 1950s? This is 2023 when people have the freedom to express themselves and identify as who they want to identify as. Get out of the 20th century.
I am also one of those people and I will never recognize any of that other than ridiculous ultra left bullshit. People have freedom to play make believe, I have the freedom to not participate in their foolishness.
A precious summer child who thinks that this is ultra left wing.
“I just want to live in a centralised commune, where the concept of currency doesn’t exist… but Mx? Well I’m not that ultra left.”
Yes, you can also never recognize that “f*g” and “n****r” are not acceptable in society anymore and still use them. You have the freedom to do that too. You have the freedom to be as big an asshole as you want to be.
But you shouldn’t have that freedom to fire people over how they express themselves.
Enjoy your bigotry. You seem very proud of it.
Could someone change this kids diaper.? Never stops crying.
oldbaldgrumpy
Not exactly a controversial opinion from your demographic
I agree. I would go further in saying that most people would agree it’s just plain ridiculous.
I would go further than that and assert that when you say most people, because of your specific demographic, you really just mean the people you know, who are outside of the range of groups actually accepting the kind of change you’re against.
In a way, you’re right. Most people that you find to be rational would agree that it’s just plain ridiculous. It’s just that the groups that you don’t find rational are growing and the groups that agree with your mindset are shrinking.
The evidence of that can be found by just observing how often this kind of thing happens at all. It used to not happen. Now it does enough to make news kind of often.
