Knowing and using people's gender pronouns is critical for building an inclusive workplace. Learn about why pronouns matter and how to introduce them.
Once you know what someone’s pronouns are, use them actively. Refer to them correctly when you’re talking to and about them. It’s particularly important to do this when they’re not present. Some people use multiple pronouns, like “she/they” or “any pronouns”. Use all of them ...
I always imagined that whatever pronouns people chose for themselves, they’d never include “it”. “It” refers to an object, not a person (of course, many new pronouns are simply confected words), and it would seem demeaning to people to refer to them as “it.” That is, I couldn...
Names presented below are pseudonyms and some identifying details have been changed or obscured to protect confidentiality. Participants’ preferred pronouns were used in their descriptions. Chronic poverty, financial insecurity, and financial insufficiency Participants noted that the inability to meet basic ...
who don’t know how to define “case” notice the incorrect sound when a young child screams, “Me do it!” By school age most of us figure out that “I” is used for the subject of a verb, and “me” for the object. Cases are forms of nouns and pronouns, which clarify meaning...
, whose protagonists do not see gender. leckie conveys this by using female pronouns throughout. correia’s new york times best-selling book warbound was up against leckie’s novel at the 2014 hugos. (he thinks he was a finalist because of an earlier sad puppies lobbying effort.) he and...
Germaine Greer said in an interview when asked if she would use a transgender person’s ‘preferred pronouns’ that she would do so ‘as a courtesy’. In other words, not because you think that person is anything other than the sex they were born with. I do think that the concept of ...
Here are some examples of gender-neutral language: Pronouns: Using gender-neutral pronouns like they/them/their or using an individual’s preferred pronouns (such as xe/xem/xyr or ze/hir/hirs) instead of using gendered pronouns like he/him/his or she/her/hers. ...
People describe the app using female pronouns. Her gender has even prompted some users to flood blogs and online forums with sexually suggestive questions for Siri such as “What are you wearing?” (Siri’s baffled response: “Why do people keep asking me this?”) ...
By daring the other side to “censor” or “cancel” them for repeating the same tired shit about Hunter Biden’s laptop or pronouns or soy lattes. There’s no organic or dynamic potential here; it’s just manufactured grievance about how “they” want to silence free speech. No...