Because fluent speakers of a language know the rules even if they don't understand them. Why can you have a big green dog but not a green big dog? Because that's the way the language works.
Silentiea
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Frenchwoman and Frenchperson are both ridiculous enough to try, but maybe go with Frenchie just to see if they'll punch you.
Québécois then.
Welcome to language my friend. Always has, always will.
Because the police never try to dehumanize "suspects" and "perpetrators".
Because it's still acting as a descriptor rather than an identifier, despite playing the syntactic role of a noun instead of an adjective. It's more about semantics in this case than syntax.
They do an IPO and a muskrat becomes the majority shareholder
except that we already have a word for "female person", and that's "woman". And to go out of your way to avoid saying "woman" makes you sound like some kind of incel weirdo
Sounds more like a terf or "gender critical" person, but maybe that's just my experience.
The trouble is that there's often not a difference in treatment between being involuntarily committed because you've demonstrated that danger and you checking yourself in because you can't take care of yourself right now.
I stopped using Facebook long ago, but that doesn't really matter. I'm not really their target demographic anymore. I expect neither are you. I know people who use Facebook regularly for one reason or another. I don't think that use looks much at all like it did in 2007, but they're still using it.
I have to assume that your dad would rather have you in his life as his daughter than to be estranged from his "son".
I'm ...honestly not convinced he would. And even if he would, I don't really trust his ability to have that conversation charitably. Maybe that's not fair to him, but.....
Is there an interest you both share?
I was honestly pondering that question myself the other day and not a lot. He's interested in sports (mostly hockey and basketball) while I'm not really at all. When I've tried to engage and watch a game with him, if I, like, ask a question or something he just gets frustrated and annoyed that I'm interrupting. And don't get me started on how he reacts if I say "good play" or something for the wrong team (mind, the only team I know isn't "wrong" is the broncos and he watches, like, every game from everyone)... Ask that even before my transition, let alone now.
He used to play games, but I don't think he's honestly done any gaming in like 20 years. He doesn't hate, like, party games, but if it's a party it's already not a great time for "real talk".
He has an interest in, like, politics and such. But he's pretty much totally conservative, still denies climate change kind of thing. So that's not a great way to have a nice chat with him either.
I mean, the US medical system is terrible in basically every way, but it's nice to know it's worse than everyone else in this particular way, too.
I expect there's probably the "rich folks" version of your open asylums that are marketed like "mental health retreats" or something and cost as much as a house, but generally if you don't have the luxury of shopping around reviews for the hospitals you're staying at, you'd just wind up in a "closed" one here. And the person who needs to check in because otherwise they know they won't eat for a week probably isn't checking reviews.