heroine does have unfortunate alternative meanings. But hard to know how people identifying differently than me interpret gender neutrality
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Let's get all
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neutral I would hazard a guess "hero" might not be gender neutral. It might change but I don't think it has!
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Gender neutral and androgynous have themselves historically been more masculine than neutral, e.g., recall "he" declared as gender neutral
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by many in the past or "guys" the same. There is a lot of femmephobia out there!
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You can 100% be agender or/and androgynous or even a cis man and still like femme stuff. But sadly, you get chastised for it. Even women do.
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Thanks Olivia! Sorry to push this - would you recommend "heros and heroines" then? That feels super weird to me. Or just avoid in general?
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I don't see why it's needed?
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I feel like I've wanted to say something like "you are all heros of <insert movement here>" in an inspirational way
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Why go for a noun that has inherent rendering? Why not something like: "leaders" "activists" "movers and shakers" "vanguard" etc?
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this was my motivation for asking
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