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!
Tam multa, ut puta genera linguarum sunt in hoc mundo: et nihil sine voce est.
I haven't been invested in this election cycle at all, certainly nothing at all like 2020. This time around, I've maintained a curmu...
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Does not compute
By 2024, Life (Globally and especially America) as we know it today
will be in the early stages of being unrecognizable.
Pluto transforms everything that it touches.
The Phoenix that rises out of the ashes.
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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