[ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of John Clark via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

 

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? 

 

How about "he is the father", or "he has a beard and a large penis" ?

 

That’s fine, no problem.  In that sentence above, we still wouldn’t know the gender on that guy with the beard and the XY genitalia.  We have a pretty good hint on the configuration of his chromosomes.  So really all I am proposing is simplifying language.  I am not proposing any change in concept, only in language.

 

 

>…Since we're on the subject of pronoun policing, what pronoun should we use when referring to what an AI said or did?

 

Since he and him are genderless, let all robots be he and him.

 

>…And if Nanotechnology makes two copies of you as precisely as Heisenberg allows, one in London and the other in Paris… what is the referent of the personal pronoun in that question?   John K Clark

 

I have never trusted Heisenberg, ever since that heavy water business.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

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