The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has stated that from now on in the Congress there is no room for such obsolete notions as mother, father, daughter, etc. All terms, as well as pronouns will be gender-neutral. Thus, instead of \u201cchairman\u201d they will just say \u201cchair,\u201d instead of \u201cgrandson\u201d or \u201cgranddaughter\u201d they will be using universal \u201cgrandchild,\u201d and so on.<\/p>\n
Commenting on these novelties, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate\u2019s Department for External Church Relations, noted that echoes of these discussions could be heard in Russia as well. For instance, disputes are under way as to the necessity of gender-specific job titles. \u201cIn the Russian language, as a rule, feminine names are applied to women, and masculine ones to men. Although there are exceptions. For example, the noun \u201cprofessor\u201d is masculine, but it can refer to both men and women. The word \u201cwriter\u201d is also applicable to men and women, albeit for women there is the word \u201cauthoress.\u201d Yet, some women do not like to be called authoresses, reckoning that they should also be called writers. All this is largely a matter of taste. Marina Tsvetayeva, as far as I remember, used to say that she was not a poetess, but a poet,\u201d the archpastor pointed out.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, when from the sphere of taste all this moves to the sphere of politics, the situation gets much more serious, because disappearance of such fundamental notions as mother, father, son, daughter, brother, sister, etc., from the political lexicon is not just a sign of new fashion or new tastes, but an evidence of deliberate and wilful destruction of the traditional family structure,\u201d Metropolitan Hilarion added.<\/p>\n
In his opinion, such steps cause greater alarm for the U.S. Congress, as well as for the American society as a whole. \u201cDespite all the political trends and craze for political correctness, the American society is essentially very traditional. In America there are great many believers, many large families with a father, mother, son, daughter, brother and sister, and in no way they are going to give up either these names or traditional form of family. The further away the political elite will be from the people and the political discourse from what constitutes people\u2019s life, the harder it will be for the American politicians to hold on to power, I think,\u201d the DECR chairman said in conclusion.<\/p>\n
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