Is it most likely a ditto if it ran ? I had some low cp pidgeys and rats run from me yesterday . Also , has he been appearing as other pokemon ? <| sep |> even if BU ideas take over , BU itself won ' t . Good , that sounds like the perfect outcome ! <| sep |> That he chose that analogy reflects , at minimum , some serious thoughtlessness and disrespect of a colleague . And this is admittedly somewhat subjective , but the rest of Peterson ' s argument and demeanor pretty much do suggest to me that he largely sees himself as an authority both allowed and required to ' correct ' trans people by intentionally being rude , and being dismissive , and ignoring tools which might otherwise help him with the practical memory concerns of learning new pronouns and linking them with the appropriate individuals . Okay . I think this gets to part of what he is saying , about political correctness . It ' s a good analogy . If you have a good analogy , but then you think oh wait , this analogy might be interpreted as condescending or disrespectful , should you not use it ? Fuck no . It ' s an analogy . It doesn ' t mean anything other than what it means . What better way is there to illustrate why compassion isn ' t the highest virtue than to give the example of a parentchild relationship ? If your kid always wants to sleep with the light on , your kid is not wellserved by letting them do it forever . This doesn ' t imply anything other than that . It doesn ' t imply that nonbinary people are like children . It doesn ' t imply anything other than sometimes compassion can be harmful , here ' s one example . As for memory tools . I mean , get real . Pronouns are a closed class of words . Adding new pronouns is attempting to change the fundamental rules of the language , and no thanks to that . There are 4 million he ' s and 4 million she ' s , and you ' re not even supposed to have to think at all when you use those words . They are practically noncognitive indeed , gender appraisal happens at a preconscious level . You ' re not supposed to have to think about gender in this fashion , and people are right to resist that . We are built , wired , to make immediate categorizations of humans into two categories , which happen to roughly correspond with the categories of potential mate and potential competition for mate . Babies can make this distinction at 8 weeks of age . We are not wired to recognize other categories , and I contend that even third genders are actually seen as subcategories of male and female . I don ' t see him as claiming hapless victim status , and I don ' t think that he is trying to say that he has a duty to correct trans people . And we ' re not even talking about trans people . Most trans people do not identify as nonbinary . And , he hasn ' t left U of T . Also , I would point out that as far as I know , he hasn ' t been accused of misgendering anybody . He merely expressed an intention to do so . If he is fired , this would seem to confirm his concerns about political correctness you can ' t talk about this stuff without holy hell raining down on you .