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Originally Posted by Martina
Problems with that mode of discourse:
1) You are framing it as a conflict rather than a change or evolution. You are creating two sides when there may be many or none.
2) It tends to have an agenda that is in part reactionary. France's is an anti-immigrant racism lurking behind that pride in French culture. Here? Who knows? Probably some transphobia.
3) It never works.
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Your analysis here bears directly on the issues raised by the shifting pronoun paradigm, too.