{"id":526256,"date":"2021-05-19T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T19:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=526256"},"modified":"2021-05-19T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T19:36:01","slug":"walsh-demi-lovato-wants-us-to-call-her-they-heres-why-i-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-demi-lovato-wants-us-to-call-her-they-heres-why-i-wont\/","title":{"rendered":"WALSH: Demi Lovato Wants Us To Call Her \u2018They.\u2019 Here\u2019s Why I Won\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwalsh-demi-lovato-wants-us-to-call-her-they-heres-why-i-wont%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=526256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Demi-Lovato-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Lately, the pop singer Demi Lovato has been on quite the journey for publicity \u2014 sorry, self-discovery. After coming out as \u201cqueer,\u201d and then pansexual, she has now decided that she is non-binary and will be using they\/them pronouns from this point forward, or at least until a trendier option presents itself. The mainstream media has been all over this breaking news, and the headlines have been as weird and headache-inducing as you might expect.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In an article confusingly titled \u201cDemi Lovato announces they are non-binary and changing their pronouns,\u201d CBS News reported the following:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11.721428571429\">\n<p><em>Singer Demi Lovato has announced that they are non-binary and are changing their pronounces to they\/them. They said the \u201crevelation\u201d followed \u201ca lot of healing and self-reflective work.\u201d&nbsp;In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ddlovato\/status\/1394913210856185858\">Twitter video<\/a> early Wednesday morning introducing their new podcast, the pop singer says they don\u2019t identify as male or female.&nbsp;On their podcast, Lovato said that \u201cit would mean the world\u201d if people used their correct pronouns, but they will \u201cbe accepting\u201d if people accidentally use she\/her pronouns, and just \u201cwant them to be making the effort.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you went into a coma sometime in the year 2015 and had just now woken up, the preceding paragraph would seem rather bewildering. You would be forgiven for assuming that \u201cDemi Lovato\u201d is the name for some sort of group or collective. If you heard someone say, \u201cI saw Demi Lovato in concert and they were really good,\u201d you would immediately conclude that Demi Lovato is an entire band, not one person. This conclusion would be justified, as it would be based on the rules of the English language. Little would you know that Demi Lovato is a single individual, and also that she\u2019s not good in concert.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the record, here his Lovato herself explaining why she has made this change:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>Living in the fourth dimension means existing consciously in both time and space. But for me it means having conversation that transcend the typical discourse. I want to take this moment to share something very personal with you. Over the past year and a half I\u2019ve been doing some healing and self-reflective work. And through the work I\u2019ve had the revelation that I identify as non-binary. With that said, I will be officially changing my pronouns to they\/them. I feel that this best represents the fluidity I feel in my gender expression, and allows me to feel most authentic and true to the person I both know I am and still am discovering.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s helpful that she began her explanation the way that she did so that it would be painfully clear that the whole thing is nothing but ridiculous psychobabble. Living in the fourth dimension means existing consciously in both time and space? What is that supposed to mean? And what other option do we have but to exist consciously in both time and space? Can I exist consciously in space but not time? Can I exist in neither? Can I be a spaceless, timeless, shapeless vapor, floating aimlessly through an eternal abyss? I suppose it is only a matter of days before Demi Lovato assumes that identity for herself \u2014 or for themselves.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As I have often argued, the proliferation of these ambiguous alternative identities is really a proliferation of narcissism. Lovato can\u2019t explain what identifying as non-binary means. She can\u2019t tell us how she arrived at this conclusion about herself. None of this can be made coherent because it doesn\u2019t mean anything. What she is really trying to say is that she is more complex and interesting than the average person. She is not sure who she is, but she is sure that whoever she is, she must not be what everyone else is. Her identity transcends all labels \u2014 except the 15 different labels she has given herself over the last six months.<\/p>\n<p>But that is her concern. She is free to play whatever word games she wants to play, and she is free to make whatever claims about herself that she wants to make. The problem is that we are not simply asked to leave people alone and let them live how they want and identify how they want. It is now demanded that we participate, that we take active roles in affirming and supporting the self-identity of strangers.<\/p>\n<p>I am fine with leaving people alone. If I hear through the grapevine that my neighbor three doors down identifies as a cantaloupe, I am not going to go knock on his door and scream at him to leave his cantaloupe fantasies behind. But if I am told that I must in any way affirm or reinforce the cantaloupe delusion, then I will have to respectfully decline. He can think whatever he wants but he cannot force me to think it, or to pretend that I think it. I am not intruding on his life when I protest or resist such an imposition. Rather, I am stopping him from intruding on mine. He might live in a world where men can be cantaloupes, but I do not. I live in the real world and would like to remain here. That is my lifestyle choice and I will insist that it be respected.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And so it goes with pronouns. A pronoun is a grammatical construct. It is part of language. It is not a pet that you can own or a fashion accessory that can wear. You don\u2019t get your own pronouns, just as you don\u2019t get your own prepositions or adverbs. I suppose a man might have a special affinity for the preposition \u201con,\u201d but that doesn\u2019t change what the word \u201con\u201d means. If he is not sitting on the chair, but says that he identifies as sitting on it because his preferred preposition is \u201con,\u201d that would not change his actual physical relationship to the chair in real life. And by demanding that we all pretend that the word \u201con\u201d means \u201coff\u201d and \u201coff\u201d means \u201con,\u201d he is the one trying to impose himself on us \u2014 or off us, as the case may be. For the sake of preserving language as a tool for conveying meaning \u2014 which is the whole reason language exists \u2014 we would have to resist these efforts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the English language, the word \u201che\u201d is a pronoun that refers to males. \u201cShe\u201d refers to females. Pronouns are not determined by feelings. We don\u2019t use pronouns to describe a person\u2019s self-perception. Pronouns are generally concerned with physical states, not psychological states. As for the pronouns \u201cthey,\u201d we are meant to use it when referring either to multiple people or to an unknown person. It would be perfectly valid to say, for example, \u201cLook, someone left their wallet here. I hope they come back for it.\u201d It would not be valid to say, \u201cLook, my friend George left their wallet here. I hope they come back for it.\u201d I know who George is. I know that he is a male. I know that he is only one person, not siamese twins. The word \u201cthey\u201d would be deceptive and confusing, and it would fail to convey proper meaning \u2014 which, again, is the entire point of language.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that language evolves over time, but the \u201cpreferred pronoun\u201d phenomenon is not an example of linguistic evolution. The people pushing this change are indeed <em>pushing<\/em> it, not merely observing that it has already happened. It is top-down engineering, not an organic development. The cultural Powers That Be have decided that certain words should no longer mean what they have always meant, though they cannot be bothered to tell us what those words should mean now instead. They are, by force and coercion, attempting to remove the meaning from words without replacing the words with new meaning. Language develops naturally in order to better convey meaning over time. In our case, language is being manipulated intentionally in order to make it less meaningful. That is a very different thing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Language matters. We cannot have a society without it. Truth matters. We cannot have a society worth living in without it. We are witnessing an attack on both language and truth, and thus on society. And we are going to need to muster the backbone to oppose it.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, the pop singer Demi Lovato has been on quite the journey for publicity \u2014 sorry, self-discovery. 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