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Aug. 7th, 2004 09:16 pmSexing the Pronoun: Turned this up while trying to find the history of the term "thon." Insterding, as my mom and aunt used to say.
Teaser: "Do we need [explicitly-neutral pronouns]? I think so—First, there’s a lot more than two genders, and many of them (if not most) cheekily inhabit the liminal, epicene wonderland between Tab A and Slot B. [...] Second, there exists the possibility of sexless individuals, for whom a set of pronouns that acknowledged the lack of sex would be appropriate. Granted, this option only comes into play once we’ve got AIs and robots and hairless grey aliens from zeta Reticuli who have no naughty bits at all running around."
...Hairless grey aliens from zeta Reticuli... *snicker*
And here, Margaret O'Connell muses extensively on another facet of my fascination: Why Do Manga and Anime Characters Look the Way They Do? .
Selected quote: "...ziggurat-headed hero whose zigzag locks are an improbable mixture of purple, scarlet, and yellow." Well, black and yellow and reddish-purple...but I <3 "ziggurat-headed."
Teaser: "Do we need [explicitly-neutral pronouns]? I think so—First, there’s a lot more than two genders, and many of them (if not most) cheekily inhabit the liminal, epicene wonderland between Tab A and Slot B. [...] Second, there exists the possibility of sexless individuals, for whom a set of pronouns that acknowledged the lack of sex would be appropriate. Granted, this option only comes into play once we’ve got AIs and robots and hairless grey aliens from zeta Reticuli who have no naughty bits at all running around."
...Hairless grey aliens from zeta Reticuli... *snicker*
And here, Margaret O'Connell muses extensively on another facet of my fascination: Why Do Manga and Anime Characters Look the Way They Do? .
Selected quote: "...ziggurat-headed hero whose zigzag locks are an improbable mixture of purple, scarlet, and yellow." Well, black and yellow and reddish-purple...but I <3 "ziggurat-headed."
