I've just come home from brunch with friends down the posh end of town, and as I crossed the road to return to the car I became mesmerised by a large banner slung overhead across King William Road. It was an ad for Pulteney Grammar School, one of Adelaide's pricey private schools, showing a picture of a little girl with plaits, bent studiously over an exercise book.
Above the photo, in giant letters wholly innocent of punctuation, appeared the following exhortation:
SEE YOUR CHILD DISCOVER WHO THEY REALLY ARE
(Thinks: 'Hello darling, how was your day?'
'Excellent! I saw Ermintrude discover who they really are!'
'Who who really are?'
'Ermintrude.'
'Um, what?'
Etc.)
Now, I don't have any kids, and if I did they'd probably be beyond school by now, but if I had and they weren't and I was looking to educate them, any school that advertised itself using the so-called 'singular they' would get crossed off my list sharpish.
The Lindsay Clancy case looks tragically like NZ’s Lauren Dickason trial.
Here’s where they differ
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A legal defence of infanticide exists in NZ and other similar
jurisdictions. But it is not an option in US courts, making the Clancy
jury’s job more diffic...
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