Name a gender-neutral singular pronoun from English that isn’t “it”.
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Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days agoIf anything, I disgendered English.
No you didn’t, masculine is still a gender. I’m totally willing to believe that this was an innocent mistake to begin with but by tripling down on it like this you’re just being a dick.
It’s not my fault English isn’t gender neutral when I am. I naturally speak and think in a way that does not account for gender.
You understand that English does have gender neutral pronouns, right? “His” just isn’t one of them. At any rate, given that Rose has her pronouns in her display name there’s no need to use neutral language anyway.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
clickyello@lemmy.world 3 days ago
they
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“They” is plural, not singular.
It can be used to refer to single people, and using a plural instead of a singular is a very common way for many languages to show deference to the person you’re speaking to. Like in Finland. English already did that and did it so much it got rid of the second person singular, as “you” is a second person plural. This ofc meant there was nowhere for English to go vis-a-vis showing deference, so English really stresses titles. Narcissism of small differences, really.
nobody thinks…
Based on the votes I’ll have to disagree and say you don’t really know what others think.
So, to reiterate, you would rather that I start using archaic stereotypes to think about people and language? I have to condition myself into thinking of everyone as either a boy or a girl, and always make a mental note to gender someone as soon as I make contact with them? The first thing I do should be to gender them? That’s your takeaway?
Maybe try reading my comments again, with some thought. You’re not the hero here.
clickyello@lemmy.world 3 days ago
incorrect, “they” can be singular or plural. that’s not even a recent “woke mind virus” change to the language, it’s always been the case.
you literally did gender her immediately when you said “guy … his” the appropriate thing to do would be to respect the pronouns she put on her profile when they were pointed out to you.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
hero
Also gendered language btw
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
So you’re saying you don’t believe women can be heroes?
That’s super sexist.
Madison420@lemmy.world 3 days ago
you’re not the hero here.
What is projection alex?
CharmOffensive@lemm.ee 3 days ago
You defending some guy who’s wrong for…reasons?
Madison420@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Calm down guy, it funny even seem like the person you’re talking about took offense with it. Why claim their outage for your own?
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
yawn
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This whole-ass thread is terrible and I downvoted everyone