I find alphabet ideology in all its forms to be dangerous and offensive.
My readers have picked up on that.
So, after yet another encounter with a store clerk wearing pronoun pins, I thought I would share my way of dealing with my encounters with the alternatively pronouned.
I treat the pronouned just exactly like I treat everybody else, with as much respect as they give me and, if possible, just a little more.
I am a man of strong opinions, but unless there is some reason, I don’t share them with others in the normal course of life, and I am annoyed when others do. If an alphabet ideologist tries to impose some onerous requirement on me, I will object, but a person wearing a pronoun pin imposes no requirement on me at all under most circumstances. They are doing the equivalent of wearing a political T-shirt or hat, and frankly, I am not so fond of that either and avoid doing…
