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submitted 1 year ago by troyunrau@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Example, the supreme court of Manitoba is now called "The Court of King's Bench" -- but the URL still says queen: https://www.manitobacourts.mb.ca/court-of-queens-bench/

Double takes abound. There should be a non-gendered form to use. "Court of Monarch's Bench" or something ;)

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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

Government documents also typically say "Queen's Printer" on them. I always laughed at the idea that the Queen has some HP printer in her study that everyone is using. Guess they all need to say King's Printer now.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

It's be a good wifi hotspot name - tongue in cheek of course. Even more so if you've got one of those crazy sovereign citizen type neighbours you can poke fun at.

[-] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

I think the gender neutral that gets used the most is "crown", but maybe that has a different connotation.

More importantly, though, Queens are rare, we just happened to had one during a huge period of technological advances, etc.

But we already have a king, his heir the kind lined up, and that king already has a male heir. Obviously shit can happen, but we're pretty far from another queen in any of our lifetimes...

[-] TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

We also had one while Canada was being set up, so like all the treaties we signed were between her majesty and the various indigenous groups. So a lot of historical stuff is queen this and queen that, and then combine that with the past 70 years of queening and you get a very significant proportion of Canada’s history being queenly

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Odds should be about 50/50 now that succession is gender neutral by default.

[-] TheGayTramp@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Barring anything substantial changing we’ll have kings for at least the next 70 years (George will be about 80 by then)

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

We can change our monarch at any moment through an act of Parliament.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

The Royal Navy figured this out a long time ago. Just call it HM's Ship. Works for both Her Majesty and His Majesty. Don't ever need to repaint the name on the side of the ship.

[-] ninjamice@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

I became a citizen this month after applying back when we still had a Queen and I got tripped up when saying the oath due to this---I'm on my 30s, there's been a Queen forever, I'm not used to having a King. I'm sure I'll get used to it at some point but man that felt weird.

[-] altasshet@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Pretty much the same for me. The citizenship test booklet I used hadn't been updated yet, even though it was a fair bit after she'd passed. And in the ceremony, it was all about the king.

(Not to mention that it's super weird to affirm your allegiance to a monarch no matter what...)

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It confuses me to see photos of the King in the royal regalia. I've only ever seen a woman wear that purple robe and it looks to me like the King is cross-dressing. "Drag Queen."

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

If you blur the lines between the person in the position, and the position itself, then perhaps the monarchy is simply trans...

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago
[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Couldn't even be bothered setting up a 307 for His Majesty haha.

[-] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Watch out for the "Queen" of Canada these days https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romana_Didulo

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's nothing on the Prince of Canada and his blue penis.

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