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22 votes
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Starfield's pronoun-removal mod has been banned by NexusMods
48 votes -
Hyprland is a toxic community
34 votes -
Indiana governor signs “Don’t Say Gay” bill that forces teachers to out trans kids to their parents
12 votes -
F1 star Lewis Hamilton blasts Florida’s anti-LBGTQ measures
8 votes -
Dwyane Wade, who has trans daughter, says he left Florida because his family 'would not be accepted' there
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Eight times when strangers misread my gender, ranked
8 votes -
Church of England considers gender neutral pronouns for God
14 votes -
New gender-neutral pronoun is likely to enter the official Norwegian language within a year, the Language Council of Norway has confirmed
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UK Supreme Court told ‘X’ gender markers on passports needn’t be controversial in historic hearing
8 votes -
"I just want to be based in girl mode from now on": Eddie Izzard has revealed she is now exclusively using 'she' and 'her' pronouns
23 votes -
Why I post my pronouns and you should too
17 votes -
How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
8 votes -
United Nations guidelines for gender-inclusive language in English
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A genderless prophet drew hundreds of followers long before the age of nonbinary pronouns
17 votes -
Merriam-Webster singles out nonbinary 'they' for word of the year honors
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Merriam-Webster adds sense of ‘they’ as a pronoun for nonbinary people to the dictionary
22 votes -
Do you use gender-neutral pronouns? Which one do you prefer?
A series of gender neutral alternatives for the third person singular pronouns (he/she/it) have been proposed throughout the recent years (and maybe decades). I wonder the preferences of fellow...
A series of gender neutral alternatives for the third person singular pronouns (he/she/it) have been proposed throughout the recent years (and maybe decades). I wonder the preferences of fellow users here in that regard. So I'd be glad if you could answer the questions in the title, and maybe elaborate a bit on the reasons of your preference. I'm both interested in this generally, and it could be useful as a means to help me practice quantitative linguistic variation (obviously this would hardly be scientifically usable source of data for actual real research so I'm not asking this for that purposes). I'll add my preference as a comment.
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On the matter of calling a child "they"
I thought about posting this as a comment in the other active pronoun conversation but I didn't want to derail it with a tangent. For starters I should make it clear I believe honoring someone's...
I thought about posting this as a comment in the other active pronoun conversation but I didn't want to derail it with a tangent. For starters I should make it clear I believe honoring someone's pronoun preferences is a matter of basic decency and respect. Conversely, insisting on using a different word when you know someone doesn't like it is, frankly, a jerk move. It's being antagonistic for no good reason.
That said, an acquaintance recently informed me that her 4-year-old prefers to use the pronoun "they." I have to admit something about this situation doesn't sit right with me. I'm also the parent of a 4-year-old, and it's clear to me that kids that age aren't developmentally equipped to make an informed decision about gender identity.
I can't help but feel like the parents are putting words in their kid's mouth, projecting a non-binary assumption onto a minor who lacks the cognitive and emotional maturity to manage it in any meaningful way. Saddling a preschooler with that kind of baggage just strikes me as irresponsible parenting.
I'm not saying there should be some kind of hard-line age of consent, just that four is too young. One ought to be far enough along developmentally to come to one's own conclusions about pronouns and gender presentation.
Apologies if I'm strawmanning, but I guess the argument could be made that all kids should be referred to as "they" — by default — until they reach an appropriate age to choose their own gender identities. I can sympathize with that as a goal, but it strikes me as unrealistic. I don't think society would ever be able to attain that kind of widespread change.
I'm curious what my fellow tilders think about this subject. (FWIW, I am referring to this kid as "they" and keeping my objections to myself, apart from this discussion.)
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If someone wants to be called 'they' and not 'he' or 'she', why say no?
10 votes