<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Personally, I’m a fan of Tim Leary’s solution to this gender specific pronoun issue. He proposed the gender unifying sHe or s/he, hir, hirs, and hirself which obviously never caught on. I submit that people resist change even if the current state is flawed. </div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 12, 2020, at 2:38 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] weird tangent: RE: URLs (was: Re: statins bad? again? sorry - I did not know where to cut it off. bill w)<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">>>>…To each their own…<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> >>…I am considering seeking profession help to get over this. </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…Sorry, I'll put a trigger warning on it next time….<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">{8^D Hey, it isn’t easy. I am in constant fear from the popular clamor to defund the grammar police, oy vey.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…Also, for the record, I was not using it to be inclusive of the entire alphabet of genders, I just wanted to use the plural…<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">To save the useful meme, I modify it a second time and say “To all, their own.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I get a lot of strange looks. But I am used to that. If not for strange looks, I would get no looks at all.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>