A professional, objective, apolitical future for The Escapist...

[the phobic]

Genders - as far as they relate to anything really - aren't pointless, but their point is a different one from what you assume it is. They are used to categorise people. For people I don't know, it doesn't matter one bit (they certainly aren't a "potential reproductive target"), so I tend to not even bother to ask - just use their name, profession or the neutral "they". For people I know, I use what they want me to use (for both pronouns and names), as common courtesy dictates. They put themselves into a category so I don't have to.

Only some very few of those people are a "potential reproductive target", regardless of their sex or gender. They're the exception - one which can be discussed face-to-face with them without needing be rude to anyone else.

Also: You do know that English, as all Germanic languages, had gendered pronouns for inanimate things, right? Your assertion isn't really based in reality, sorry. To top it off, the gender of the things and animals had little bearing on anything, much less their (non-existent) reproductive role.

Uh, yes I know. (gendered pronouns) Obviously they serve a different purpose there regardless of what we are talking about.

Common courtesy dictates our current gender pronoun because that is the dogma being forced on everyone.

As to "potential reproductive target" it depends what you define as potential.

 

[sky14kemea]

Let's not make threads directing hate at future content providers before they even get here, okay? If you don't like that person or their views, you don't have to watch their content.

 

[Archon]

Hello! I was away this weekend and am just coming back to this controversy.

Lizzy and Brandon Morse are writing articles. They are not employees or news writers. As I've said elsewhere, we've downsized on both employees and news writers and aren't staffing up right now.

Nor are they writing political work for us. Josh and I are quite serious that we don't want the Escapist to be political. That means we don't want it to be left-wing OR right-wing.

That said, everyone has political views. Some writers will hold views some of you disagree with. I certainly disagree with lots of our writers' views. If you see some content here from people that hold right-wing views more frequently than in the past, it's because more right-wing journalists are pitching us these days.

But, again, you shouldn't expect to see their political views expressed here. Defy Media has several huge sites that explicitly cover political topics - Gurl.com and The Gloss are quite progressive and feminist. EveryJoe.com is conservative-libertarian. Those sites all flourish by covering politics and any pitches we receive for political content are directed there.

I'm not one who believes that everything is or has to be political.