TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoExecutive order bans gender-neutral language in Arkansas government documentsfayettevilleflyer.comexternal-linkmessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down114
arrow-up1237arrow-down1external-linkExecutive order bans gender-neutral language in Arkansas government documentsfayettevilleflyer.comTheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square139fedilink
minus-squarediprount_tomato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·10 months agoNot one to refer to an individual, that’s for sure
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-210 months agoLook, I know it’s sophistry, but so is the EO in the OP. But the fact of the matter is I you it we they me you us them this that these those such mine yours ours theirs who whom whomever whomsoever what whatever which whichever whose myself yourself self itself ourselves yourselves themselves each other one another all another anybody anyone anything both each either everything everybody everyone few many most neither nobody none no-one nothing several are all gender-neutral. Some of them can’t logically refer to gender, true, but that doesn’t make them start being gendered either. EDIT: ANNNND many of them do refer to an individual (I, me, you…)
Not one to refer to an individual, that’s for sure
Look, I know it’s sophistry, but so is the EO in the OP. But the fact of the matter is
are all gender-neutral. Some of them can’t logically refer to gender, true, but that doesn’t make them start being gendered either.
EDIT: ANNNND many of them do refer to an individual (I, me, you…)