The C has a different meaning to the word “Current”

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Of course, that’s a tidied version. The original included the equally redundant and equally omnipresent ‘solution’ as roughly every third word – in the style of modern PR writing. Grrr.

MORPHISM

The error of stereotyping by outer appearance.

“Don’t judge a book by its cover” they say. But they also say: “If it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, it is a duck.” Tell that to Hans Christian Andersen!

Morphism – discrimination and labelling on grounds of appearance – must be stamped out. Tolerance, in this damaging area of social practice must not be tolerated.

Since the PC revolution, took hold in the mind of person (formerly man) we have been subjected to the use of “his or her” and “he or she” ad nauseam. THESE ARE MORPHIST TERMS; dependent upon the erroneous idea of just two denominations of person, presumed definable and presumed accepting of their defining. This is a vile heresy. It is Morphism in all its presumptuous effrontery.
To designate a person in terms of external fitments and aspect ratios, without paying attention to internal adjuncts, endocrine chemistry, brain wiring and mind programming, is to fall prey to Morphist Madness. The next time you espouse, carelessly, the assumption of “he or she” on encountering an unknown person, draw back from the abyss and remember the Anti-Morphism Code:

NO CLASSIFICATION WITHOUT SPECIFICATION

To avoid affront to all those poor devils whose outward manifestation is misleading to the general public, we owe them the deference of using the wholly proper terms: “they” in place of he or she and “their” in place of his or her.

We have long accepted the “woman” in a suit and man in a dress; now it is time to remove those irritating – nay offensive – signs on toilet doors and to re assess the whole business of “public convenience”. I suggest that just as motorway services have: knife and fork, bed, petrol pump etc on the sign, we need signs for, sit-down, stand up, disposal bin, baby changing etc. on every toilet door. These symbols would simply indicate the facilities within, to be judged in terms of suitability for the task to be addressed by the approaching human. Gender need not be defined.
I leave it to others, more qualified than I, to define and present, through the medium of the symbol, those parts and functions of the body which might reasonably be serviced in a public toilet.

This would only go a small way to the suppression of Morphism, but it is a start. I can only hope to see further progress in the fullness of time.

Jan 03

It’s just a few blocks away from The El Camino Real Street.