[ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 06/11/2025 17:40, spike wrote:
> Side note: I also propose returning the pronouns he and him to genderless, restoring she and her to specifically female, and if we ever need a specifically masculine gender (when was the last time you needed that grammatical construct?  (never?  (same here))) then the pronouns become hemale and hismale and maleman.  Extension: terms such as guy and man also revert to genderless.  Reason: after all this time, a quarter of a century at least, we never found a good way around the linguistic clumsiness we introduce with genderless pronouns.  That he-or-she and the whole they/them business, forget it.  To hell with all that, let he and him be genderless again, introduce new pronouns when we need a specifically male pronoun, which is never in that quarter century we have been committing comically absurd and unnecessary violence to language, trying to solve a non-problem.  Make androgyny genderless again.


Give that man a medal!

We can re-instate words like 'chairman' instead of 'chairperson' (or 
even 'chair', which I've heard a lot recently. A chair is something you 
sit on, for christ's sake!), 'mankind', 'salesman', etc.

The problem is, we will be accused of 'outdated gender stereotyping', as 
per this:

https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/19/un-releases-list-gender-neutral-replacements-commonly-used-words-12725607/

Which just leads to hilarity:
https://universalenglish.org/gender-neutral-terms/

-- 
Ben