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Tag: pronouns

  • A white woman wearing a red-and-white flannel shirt frowns at the camera as she holds a hand up in a "halt" position.

    'All Americans legally female': Trump invites mockery with sloppy executive order

    I'm not sure that President Trump knew what she was doing when three days ago she signed a law into effect that declares herself legally-female. But if that's how she identifies, then of course I'm happy to use her correct pronouns.

    Read more (476 words)

    • Repost
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    • 2 comments
    • posted 24 January, 2025
  • Happy International Pronouns Day! ๐Ÿฅณ

    I use he/him pronouns.

    • Note
    • posted 16 October, 2024
  • Max props to my employer for providing pronoun pins not just in a diversity of options but also offering blank ones for people not represented by any of the pre-printed options.

    Full image of Boxes of pin badges representing various pronouns, plus blank ones and a sharpie.
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    Boxes of pin badges representing various pronouns, plus blank ones and a sharpie.

    • Note
    • posted 6 October, 2024
  • A pile of books on a round-topped wooden bedside table. From top to bottom: Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki, a slim book whose spine doesn't show a name, Bad Words by Philip Gooden, Absolute Efficiency: Book One by Neil Wilson, Market Forces by Richard Morgan, Kids on Brooms by Jonathan Gilmour, Doug Levandowski, and Spenser Starke, Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins, The New Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko, and a book whose spine is turned away from the camera.

    [Bloganuary] Reading List

    At this kind of time of year, I've got a long reading list already. But when I'm done with that, maybe it's time for me to re-read Antkind, and see what I see in it the second time around.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (728 words)

    • Article
    • posted 27 January, 2024
  • Flowchart showing how the pronouns used by Three Rings for a volunteer are contingent on what properties their org records, whether the volunteer has specified pronouns, failing that whether they've specified a gender, falling back to "singular they" pronouns.

    Pronouns in Three Rings

    Via a quick linguistics lesson, Dan explains how Three Rings handles volunteers' pronouns, and how it might need to improve in future.

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1323 words)

    • Article
    • posted 17 November, 2021
  • Venn-Euler diagram showing "he" and "she" as separate categories, but the name "they" shared between the subset (individuals for whom this is their individual pronoun) and the superset (one or more people whose genders are unspecified), causing confusion.

    Understanding Them (Pronouns)

    After many years, Dan has a change of heart and decides that the singular "them" isn't all that, and maybe we do need some other nonbinary pronouns.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (798 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 9 April, 2020

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