This person holds a Cabinet-level position. (A “non-binary” Minister for Digital Affairs — isn’t that some sort of syntax error?)
What an advertisement for democracy!
Saturday, December 11, 2021
It’s not only the West that’s insane
Taiwan was represented at Joe Schmo’s Summit for Democracy by a long-haired “post-gender” man named Audrey who opened, uh, “her” remarks with “Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary friends” and closed by saying “Live long and prosper” while giving the Vulcan salute from Star Trek.
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Does not compute
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Audrey is 'her'? I regret to inform you that Taiwan is still behind the curve. The highest rank of post-genderism in English is to be a 'they'. Although I suppose this particular bit of English grammar doesn't translate into Chinese all that well....
As for non-binary digital affairs, perhaps Taiwan is looking to resurrect the Soviet Setun ternary computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
Chinese personal pronouns have five grammatical genders (male, female, animal, inanimate, and god), but they're all pronounced exactly the same ("ta"), though written with different characters. Audrey has said ta is so far beyond gender that ta accepts any and all pronouns. So yes, behind the curve. I mean, what's the point of degenderacy without the pronoun policing?
Maybe it is part of a subtle govt. plot to deter the unification project - on the lines of "Think again: do you *really* want to assimilate *this* kind of stuff?"
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