Stop using sexist language
Like "he" and "she." Go with "hen."
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Comments (14)
In college the pronoun was "ze."
Posted by Pistolero | June 27, 2011 8:11 AM
My personal favorite: she-he-it.
Posted by Allan L. | June 27, 2011 8:11 AM
Thank goodness for progress, I would hate to live in culture where boys grow up to be manly, and the girls grow up to be nice and pretty.
Posted by Gibby, | June 27, 2011 8:16 AM
It's either this or Sharia.
Posted by Miles | June 27, 2011 8:27 AM
This is right up there with the couple in Ontario, Canada who are not telling anyone the sex of their baby so as to not unduly influence its gender identity.
What a lot of rot!
Posted by portland native | June 27, 2011 8:29 AM
But it's Swedish! Look for the enlightened folks on the Portland City Council to try to get the ball rolling on something similar.
Posted by Pom Mom | June 27, 2011 9:23 AM
None of those proposed gender-neutral singular pronouns is ever going to catch on. What's happening instead is that "they," "their" and "them" are increasingly being used for this purpose, and being regarded as correct by grammarians. ("Theirself/themself" still sounds a bit awkward to me, but that's probably because I'm over 50. I'll get used to it eventually.)
Posted by semi-cynic | June 27, 2011 10:22 AM
"gender pedagogues" = nanny commissars
Posted by Sio | June 27, 2011 10:35 AM
Very Stalinist, don't "we" think?
Posted by portland native | June 27, 2011 10:47 AM
Thank goodness for progress, I would hate to live in culture where boys grow up to be manly, and the girls grow up to be nice and pretty.
Actually, you probably would. We've tried thinking like that and it comes with a lot of extra misogynistic and even misandrist garbage we don't need.
It's better to let people be who they are instead of trying to force them into a couple one-size fits all boxes.
Posted by 3H | June 27, 2011 11:00 AM
Oh, yes, because our society is sooooo healthy now and almost no one needs psychiatrists anymore.
Posted by John Fairplay | June 27, 2011 11:11 AM
I think there are more problems in our society than what socially “neutering” would fix.
Class warfare for example, doesn’t seem to matter on gender there as far as ubiquitous minimum wage jobs.
I have no in depth knowledge on the subject, but somehow it seems that this type of schooling could cause confusion and frustration. After all we are different, and differences have positive values.
Posted by clinamen | June 27, 2011 11:33 AM
To each his (or her, or his and her, or their) own.
Posted by Pete | June 27, 2011 2:16 PM
"Nearly all the children's books deal with homosexual couples, single parents or adopted children. There are no "Snow White," ''Cinderella" or other classic fairy tales seen as cementing stereotypes."
Weird is definitely working overtime to eradicate normality.
Posted by jmh | June 27, 2011 2:56 PM