A Revolutionary Act

A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun. Without pronouns, we would speak like a second grader writes, repeating the noun over and over. "I love dogs. Dogs are good. Dogs are fun. Dogs eat a lot." Pronouns have been around as long as language. Notice the personal pronouns in Genesis 1:27 which says, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." God created male and female, the Lord (he) created male, (him). If we go a few pages over in Genesis 3:6, we find some more personal pronouns, "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." With masculine and feminine pronouns for the male and female protagonists, I know what just happened. A male uses the pronouns he and him and a female uses the pronouns she and her. The husband is the male, the wife is the female.

Down south, "y'all" (a second person pronoun) is useful when speaking to a group of people where the listeners are included, but it's "they" (a third person pronoun) if it's a group of people that neither you nor I are a part of. There aren't any circumstances where "they" will work about yourself, because "self", is an individual, a distinct, single person. Of course, there is the majestic plural, or sometimes known as the "royal we" but that should be reserved for monarchs who can speak of themselves as "we" but since we still live in a constitutional republic, it's best to leave the plural pronouns for when there are at least two people, or if you are demon possessed. Mark 5:8-9, "My name is Legion: for we are many."

The fad of choosing pronouns can't last because the whole premise is built on the idea of denying the truth. John McWhorter, arguing for a brave new world of pronouns, wrote, "for thousands of years, in the ancestor of most of today’s European languages on the Ukranian steppes…its speakers were using pronouns that sounded roughly like “me,” “you,” and “we” (not to mention the “tu” familiar from French and Spanish). That’s how hardy pronouns are." But, McWhorter misses the point, and I blame his atheism. Pronouns are hardy because they reflect basic truths of reality. It's just a fact there are two sexes, male and female, and you are either one or the other, and that won't ever change. The only way this will catch on is if it's enforced with a heavy hand. It's hard to force people to deny reality, even with constant propaganda and social influence. It's the Devil who is the father lies. "For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth," 2 Corinthians 13:8.