# What were you THINKING?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/538 "2023-12-31T04:26:20Z")

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Indeed, that’s a good thread to point to for this thread’s purposes. For example, a certain poster just took a massive thread dump there (already flagged).

> [@Please stop using singular they for posters who have an established gender](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-using-singular-they-for-posters-who-have-an-established-gender/995306/310):
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> &nbsp; How about calling them what they really are?:&nbsp; Men Men are not, and never will be women, no matter what they believe, no matter what they pretend, no matter what they have done to themselves to try to become pseudo-women.&nbsp; That’s just hard, immutable science. &nbsp; And it is most certainly not “oppression” to decline to recognize anyone as what they clearly are not. &nbsp; Why should real women have any need for a “cis…” prefix, to distinguish them from fake women?

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