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Title: 'Yo' is the word when 'he' or 'she' won't do
Post by: Natasha on January 02, 2008, 05:19:46 PM
Post by: Natasha on January 02, 2008, 05:19:46 PM
'Yo' is the word when 'he' or 'she' won't do
Newscientist.com (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19726374.300-yo-is-the-word-when-he-or-she-wont-do.html?feedId=being-human_rss20)
By Mark Peters
01/02/2008
ADRIAN QUINTERO is a transgender person with strong feelings about pronouns. "Our language really needs words to acknowledge folks who do not feel included in the gender binary," says Quintero, who uses the pronouns "ze" (or "zie") and "hir", because "they have the freedom to mean something other than, or in addition to, male and female.
Newscientist.com (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19726374.300-yo-is-the-word-when-he-or-she-wont-do.html?feedId=being-human_rss20)
By Mark Peters
01/02/2008
ADRIAN QUINTERO is a transgender person with strong feelings about pronouns. "Our language really needs words to acknowledge folks who do not feel included in the gender binary," says Quintero, who uses the pronouns "ze" (or "zie") and "hir", because "they have the freedom to mean something other than, or in addition to, male and female.
Title: Re: 'Yo' is the word when 'he' or 'she' won't do
Post by: Jay on January 03, 2008, 07:54:30 AM
Post by: Jay on January 03, 2008, 07:54:30 AM
*rolls eyes*