Gender-Neutral Pronouns
rogersgeorge on May 14th, 2017
Really concise today…
https://comicskingdom.com/mallard-fillmore/2017-04-29 Bruce Tinsley
My solution is to avoid pronouns. Pronouns are an easy source of accidental ambiguity. The singular “they” goes back to Milton or Chaucer, so the duck can’t really object to the usage.
We have no gender neutral singular pronouns in English–you can’t have a group of a singular, but in our current culture, it’s less in style to be so specific, although sometimes you don’t know the gender. Sex, btw is the biological term, gender is grammar, though our culture has started using gender to refer to sexual preferences.
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