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Re: Gender neutrality and the multiple-personality third-person pronoun
Subject:Re: Gender neutrality and the multiple-personality third-person pronoun From:Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:32:54 -0800 (PST)
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I know it has serious de-humanizing connotations, but maybe we
professional writers and the academics who train future generations
should just start advocating the use of "it" "its" and "itself" when
referring to a single person whose gender is unknown.
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I don't know about you, but I always hear people refer to babies as "it" until they find out whether it's a boy or it's a girl. Wouldn't "He's a girl!" sound sort of weird? ;-)
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