seems very on-brand :3c (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by 100beep@lemmygrad.ml to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] henry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I honest to god think this is a defect of the English language. There should be a singular gender neutral pronoun.

[-] AlexTheTurtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

There shouldn't be any gendered pronouns at all. Many languages do just fine without them.

[-] henry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

That's true. It does feel a little strange to have to refer to someone's gender any time you want to refer to them in a sentence. Although conversely for both cis and trans folk alike it's gender affirming for them. It just comes down to language though. It probably seems 100% fine to have genderless pronouns in languages that don't have them.