Hi! I have noticed there’s quite a lot of people in the Episode community who are apart of the LGBTQ+ community. Recently, in my country at least, there have been new ‘rules’ put in place to be gender-inclusive. For example, you have to say chest not breast, as in chest-feeding or chicken chest other than breast-feeding or chicken breast. Also, you can’t say Mr Potatohead, it’s just… Potatohead. They also want to cancel some parts of historical literature because they are ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’. The thing that I’m really unsure about is the fact that apparently, in my country, you can’t say mother or father, you have to say ‘gestational parent’ or ‘non-gestational parent’. In my personal opinion, I feel like saying a term like ‘gestational parent’ is sort of robotic and takes the comfort and love out of saying ‘mum’ or ‘dad’. This is my own opinion. I have nothing against any gender or non-gender. Remember to always be your true self.
What do you all think about this? Thanks
THESE ARE ALL JUST SUGGESTIONS, NOT LAWS FOR MY COUNTRY. No one even cares about them anyway, I think they are changing Mr Potatohead to Potatohead though…
As an agender person, i appreciate the steps that are being taken… but i also don’t feel like they’re entirely necessary. not everything needs to be neutral because some people are a part of the gender binary - that’s OK and should be celebrated! Plus, all humans have breasts! That body part isn’t exclusive to anyone. so while the inclusivity is great, i feel as if it should be an option rather than required. if someone wishes to be called a mom or a dad; so be it! and if someone else wants to be called a gestational parent; so be it! labels are what we use to describe ourselves… and not everyone uses gender-neutral labels. normalization and options of gender-neutral words should always be encouraged, but there’s no need for everyone to be using those words for themselves ◡̈
ah, okay! i guess the key there is to simply ask how someone wishes to be referred to and go from there! it’s great that more options are becoming available, but like i said - they’re not for everyone… so just ask and if someone gets angry just clarify that you were told to call them that… you know? idk if i’m making any sense lol
So I understand why they think saying Mr. or Mrs. is wrong, because your basically saying that they’re a women or man; and don’t get me wrong I get it, it’s messed up because some people are non-gender conformity, no idea if I said it right, excuse me if I said it wrong. But people need labels, because it’s easier to talk to them, as in like trying to get their attention. So it makes sense of those rules your country makes, but it’s harder to speak to them without those labels. And I know it’s not right, but like dishsoap said, you ask them what they prefer to be called, and if you called them wrong, you say excuse me.
I just got done reading what you guys posted, and you already said what I said, It took me long to write because I wanted to make sure I said it right, without being disrespectful.
Frankly I find this decision to be weird. I recently went through a little identity crisis fun times and I feel like I intimately understood the problem binary labels create to people who don’t identify on a binary system. But… well, loads of others still do and to take away something from some people so that everyone feels equal is just wrong imo. Rather, they should have thought of new labels to introduce for non-binary people.
I’d feel super weird if I needed to call my own parents gestational and non-gestational and they’d feel the same. It’s cause my mom identifies as a female and my dad as a male. I see that it would work well with non-binary people, but why should I call my parents something they don’t feel comfortable with?
Also this
is disgusting. Last time it happened was during WW2. World War 2. I-
Canceling parts of cultures and histories is horrible. It’s like you’re canceling part of your own identity. If we want to progress to a better future, we need to remember what worked in the past and what didn’t and needs to never be repeated again. That’s literally what history is for. I mean, if ‘canceling’ means teaching how it’s wrong that’s one thing, but wiping it out entirely as if it never happened makes me nauseous.
I think it’s good they’re making changes but these changes r weird… idk where u r but in my city, which is considered a v modern place, we don’t do this. But, if I’ve just met someone, I wouldn’t say ‘mom’ or ‘dad’ about their parents, I’d just refer to them as parents, bc that’s not necessarily their gender/pronoun. So I understand that they wanna b inclusive to other parents, but to not b able to call ur parents mom/dad is so weird?
‘Hey gestational parent’ ok, that’s v weird. But perhaps they’re trying to work out a non binary name for a parent. That’s v good, however, if ur parents like mom/dad I don’t see y u shouldn’t b able to call them that.
This is smth I’m not a fan of. Ppl need to understand that we learn from history, it teaches us, if we forgot abt history there probably would’ve been another world war. We don’t need to celebrate/praise parts of our history, of course, but by remembering it, we learn & grow + our history is what makes our countries what they r today.
The problem is that anatomically speaking, the breast is just one part of your chest.
Women and men both have breast glands within the chest. Which is why men can, though it is rare, still get breast cancer.
To pretend that breasts don’t exist now, in my opinion, is ridiculous.
As for Mr and Mrs. Potato Head, maybe they should just add a non-binary Potatohead.
