heroine does have unfortunate alternative meanings. But hard to know how people identifying differently than me interpret gender neutrality
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Replying to @blahah404 @waterlego and
I'd certainly consider hero gender neural now :)
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Replying to @kirstie_j @blahah404 and
Just curious but do you all pronounce "heroin" the same for person as you do for the drug? I can't decide/recall if I do or not!
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Replying to @o_guest @kirstie_j and
Oh, shit I guess we do!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbnRJnMBBZM …
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Replying to @o_guest @kirstie_j and
BTW I would avoid declaring a word statistically and historically used for men "hero" as gender neutral. In the same way "guys" is not
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Replying to @o_guest @kirstie_j and
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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Replying to @o_guest @kirstie_j and
Gender neutral and androgynous have themselves historically been more masculine than neutral, e.g., recall "he" declared as gender neutral
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Replying to @o_guest @kirstie_j and
by many in the past or "guys" the same. There is a lot of femmephobia out there!
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Replying to @o_guest @kirstie_j and
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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Read this if you're curious for more details/the effects of femmephobia: http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Femmephobia …
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