www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/03/06/words.language.pc/index.html(pops, as always)
I'm not really into gender issues but as a female, it's hard not to be reminded sometimes that we are not the "default" gender. For example, we've all heard about people who had pets that they assumed, due to nothing really, were male - they wake up one morning and there are
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I'd be in favor of a gender-neutral pronoun, but all of them that I've heard just sound kind of silly when you try to put them into practice.
hir (which has its own pronunciation issues--it's either gonna sound like "here" or just like "her" anyway),
ip (i've never heard that one and it does have the network address issue you mentioned :P),
sie (sounds like 'she', also looks like "she"/"you" in german)
The one I like best, honestly, is "they," although that seems to annoy hardcore prescriptive grammarians everywhere. (Prescriptive grammarians sometimes annoy me, but they seem to have more public clout than linguists.) Admittedly, it might occasionally generate singular/plural confusion. However it'd be no moreso than "you" does in my opinion, and in those rare cases I think s/he would be fine...
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I think we should just objectify everyone. Refer to people as "it" and "thang", like: "Look at that sweet thang, I'd like to hit it." Totally gender neutral.
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Grammatically incorrect??!!? I'm sorry, didn't people make up languages? If we can add new words like ip and shim and whatever other unpronounceable bullshit someone comes up with, can't we just change the grammar rules? Does it require some kind of constitutional amendment or am I missing something?
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