Except they're not trying to change "the current culturally conditioned connotations to personal pronouns" - they're trying to get rid of personal pronouns altogether, replacing them with a universal pronoun which isn't gender-specific.
Actually in
the particular example that pokefloote posted, the person is arguing that the female personal pronoun ("she/her" ) should stop meaning "female". You're thinking of some other part of the Tumblr brigade. There are those that want to add a ton of additional pronouns, and then there are those that want to eliminate them altogether.
That's the problem with the whole rabble, it's too schizophrenic
Forgive me for contesting a modest grammatical proposal which is ungrammatical. ;O;
Of course it's "ungrammatical", a proposal to change the rules is of course against the rules.
Bah, grammar is a set of consensual and ultimately arbitrary rules that has changed over the past and can be changed again. It is a set of mores that were never planned, they more sort of
coagulated (and don't get me started on spelling). Arguments towards the conservation of current grammar don't claim the current state is logical, consistent, let alone optimal, they all boil down to "it has always been done that way", "it's traditional", and "change baaad"; which is incidentally also the war cry (or possibly mating call) of the common Foxi ;O;
Foxi4ultraconservative ;O;
As for linguistic determinism, the hypothesis states that it's the language that influences the worldview, not the worldview that influences the language, so you picked the wrong hypothesis to support your claim. ;O;
Language influences the worldview, therefore by changing the language we can change the worldview.
Moreover, it's the privilege* [...] privilege* [...] The subject may not like it. The subject also has nothing to say in the matter. ;O;
Need I even say anything? Foxi4oppressive scum ;O;
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are inherently racist