In other news, Gender Studies professors confirm that it's definitely not misgendering if they unilaterally decide that everyone is "they" now. I propose "postconsensual equitygendering" for the lexiconhttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/why-we-should-all-use-they-them-pronouns/ …
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Replying to @webdevMason
I actually really like this idea. Why should gender identity get it's own class of pronouns when no other kind of identity does?
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Replying to @HunterJayPerson
Good question. Do you have any ideas why that might be?
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Replying to @webdevMason
(Totally a guess): Perhaps in the past gender mattered a lot more than other factors did in common day to day interactions.
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Replying to @HunterJayPerson @webdevMason
Or it might be that other factors would have required more than 2 or 3 pronouns -- or didn't apply to as many people -- so were less likely to catch on.
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Or maybe there were other pronouns used! Maybe along class dimensions - if 'sir' and 'madam' are used as pronouns for upper class people, and something else for lower classes. I'm not sure, is there a linguist about?
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Replying to @HunterJayPerson @webdevMason
If it turns out it is historical like that, is that a reason for keeping it today?
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The social salience of sex/gender and sexuality is universal across cultures. The question you asked initially is a great starting point for exploring a really rich facet of human identity and experience across historical & modern cultures.
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