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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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_type_of_grammatical_genders … I think your definition of "happenstance" must be very different from mine.
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I'm not arguing that there aren't (somewhat) genderless languages, or that pronouns are in some sense "naturally" gendered. But it's entirely coherent to me that masculine/feminine would be right up there with animate/inanimate under "salient features that frame social reality."
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