Friday, October 11, 2013

"Epicene" pronouns

I remember a good deal of discussion of this subject in radical circles in the 1970s. We never could seem to agree on a candidate for a gender-neutral pronoun. Some feminists felt that eliminating he and she--particularly she--would detract from women's uniqueness. Someone proposed that we use "she" one day for everyone, and "he" the next--equal time as it were. http://www.psmag.com/culture/gender-neutral-pronouns-actually-doomed-67600/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+miller-mccune%2Fsummary_feed+%28Pacific+Standard+-+Summary+Feed%29

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