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| author | Andrew Yu <andrew@andrewyu.org> | 2022-07-26 03:11:08 +0800 |
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| committer | Andrew Yu <andrew@andrewyu.org> | 2022-07-26 03:11:08 +0800 |
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reinforces gender binary?
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diff --git a/note/their.html b/note/their.html index 7705b96..a39bd1a 100644 --- a/note/their.html +++ b/note/their.html @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <body> <h1>Gender-neutral Pronouns</h1> <p>You might have seen me use ``their'' instead of ``he'' to refer to myself. This is not an error.</p> - <p>Gender is irrelevant in most day-to-day conversations. Gender-aware pronouns makes us think that there's something inherently different between different genders while in reality these differences are irrelevant to the topic of conversation.</p> + <p>Gender is irrelevant in most day-to-day conversations. Gender-aware pronouns makes us think that there's something inherently different between different genders while in reality these differences are irrelevant to the topic of conversation. It also reinforces gender-binary, which may be no longer true.</p> <p>Therefore, I usually use gender-neutral pronouns unless if gender is important in the context. The most common is Singular They—it's basically how ``you'' works in modern English but referring to a third party. Others include xi/xir, perse/per and even vi/vim (sometimes used among users of the <a href="https://vim.org/">Vim</a> text editor.</p> <div id="footer"> <hr /> |