In addition to hating transgenders and drag queens, the Media Research Center has serious issues with anything or anyone considered to be nonbinary or gender-neutral. We’ve already noted its freakout over a nonbinary villain in the new “She-Ra” cartoon, and there’s more where that came from.
Sadi Martin complained that an episode of the CBS series “All Rise” “reeked of political correctness and liberal bias, focusing on non-binary identification,” going on to whine: “All Rise is trying to take everything and make it out to be about feelings, rather than logic and justice, and now they have taken the law, which while it is open to some interpretation, is not ‘binary’ as [defense attorney] Emily claims, in a desperate attempt to relate the law to her client, but is ordered and rational.”
Following up on an earlier freakout over gender-neutral Barbie dolls that he called “plastic monstrosities” that mean “now your son can occupy the budding years of his childhood fantasizing about what it’s like being some androgynous weirdo,” Gabriel Hays complained about an op-ed that, in his description, made the argument that gender-neutral dolls are “not woke enough,” prompting Hays to go into full mocking sneer mode about people he personally despises: “But then again, how does one represent mental illness in a plastic doll?” Hays also had a major meltdown over Merriam-Webster choosing “they” as its word of the year:
Wonderful. The folks behind the leading English dictionary are now complicit in the left’s vendetta against biology, naming “they” as 2019’s “Word of the Year” and explaining that this achievement is very much based on the word’s newfound gender-neutral usage.
[…]With a quick Google search, anyone can see the travesty for themselves. The definition of what used to be a simple third-person pronoun has a second official meaning: they can also be “used to refer to one person whose gender identity is nonbinary.” Well there you have it, folks. The lefty lunacy of “they/them” has been codified.
So, why did Merriam-Webster feel confident enough to buy into this mental illness? Well, because progressive lawmakers, agenda-driven psychologists and Hollywood wack jobs have been employing the term, of course. Merriam-Webster defended the pronoun’s “Word of the Year” status because Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), for instance, “revealed in April during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Equality Act that her child is gender-nonconforming and uses they.”
In any other society, Jayapal’s actions may be seen as child abuse, but in our PC wasteland it’s just a new parenting style you can look up in your current dictionary.
Only at the MRC could speaking a word in a way it doesn’t like be seen as “child abuse.”