[Gendergap] Calling all neutral user names She?

Daniel and Elizabeth Case dancase at frontiernet.net
Thu Sep 8 18:21:41 UTC 2011


> Feel free. I'm going to continue to use "they", which usually fits
> without violating gender grammar too much.

I use "they" when referring to the third person of a gender-unknown someone 
I'm not expecting to join the conversation and "s/he" when I am (possibly as 
a prod to clarification on said person's part). I don't think "xe", which 
some people have tried to use, really works ... people often think that it 
was a typo, and the first time I saw it at the head of a sentence I 
scratched my head and wondered what xenon had to do with any of this.

Daniel Case 





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