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diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index edcb27c..12b397a 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ </head> <body> <h1>Andrew Yu</h1> + <p>Andrew Yu, student of YK Pao School and Free Computing activist, welcomes you to <a href="/note/their.html">their</a> Website.</p> <h2 id="nav">Navigation</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.andrewyu.org">Personal site (this page)</a></li> diff --git a/note/their.html b/note/their.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7705b96 --- /dev/null +++ b/note/their.html @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> + <head> + <title>Gender-neutral Pronouns</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="/plain.css" /> + <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> + </head> + <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>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 /> + <p><a href="/">Andrew Yu's Website</a></p> + </div> + </body> +</html> diff --git a/article/template.html b/template.html index f7146d5..f7146d5 100644 --- a/article/template.html +++ b/template.html |