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WCDT Strips 4331-4335 (18-22, August 2020)
eschaton:
--- Quote from: Cornelius on 22 Aug 2020, 05:22 ---The way I read it, they were referring to Marten, really. As in, "if Claire didn't pass, Marten would have to deal with..."
Really obvious from the preceding sentence, really.
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Indeed, the subject of the paragraph is Marten, not Claire - which is clear from the sentances before and after.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 22 Aug 2020, 06:41 ---I try to avoid that confusion by using "he'' for any gender.
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Whatever your intention, doing that deliberately will nowadays commonly be seen as offensive and misogynistic. While circumlocutions can be clumsy, the habit of rewording sentences to avoid the issue when possible is not so hard to develop. And the increasing use of "singular they" is often acceptable (and goes back to Chaucer and Shakespeare). I suggest you reconsider your decision.
--- Quote ---"He'' only came to connote the masculine gender after some persons tried to make persons of the feminine gender somehow inferior by introducing "she.''
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That ignores the fact that gendered words are as old as recorded language itself.
--- Quote --- A similar history can be seen with the word "woman''---"man'' was always just short for "human'' (yes the moon-landing quote was faked) but "woman'' was introduced to try to dehumanize humans of the feminine gender.
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"Man" and "Human" have different etymologies - they just happen to have ended up looking similar; they also somewhat swapped meanings! "Man is from the Sanscrit word "manu" meaning "human" or "man"; whereas "human" is from the Latin "homo", meaning "man".
"Woman" is from the Old English "wifmann", the combination of "wif" meaning "woman" and "mann" meaning "man" - it thus originally denoted a wife. It was not formed from man to form a demeaning alternative, but included the old word which already meant woman. Of course, as this history is not apparent in the sounds of the modern words, it is important to use them in ways that prevent misunderstanding or which appear to make unjustified assumptions.
Theta9:
--- Quote from: N.N. Marf on 22 Aug 2020, 06:41 ---``He'' only came to connote the masculine gender after some persons tried to make persons of the femmenine gender somehow inferior by introducing ``she.'' A similar history can be seen with the word ``woman''---``man'' was always just short for ``human'' (yes the moon-landing quote was faked) but ``woman'' was introduced to try to dehumanize humans of the femmenine gender. Since ages of using the dehumanizing terms in reference to humans of the femmenine gender, while their dehumanizing intent is kept covert, many have assumed that the primary meaning of the terms is to refer to the femmenine gender.
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I find your assertion dubious. Citation needed.
Gnabberwocky:
Oenone:
Renee is a really good friend. I know she’s still crushing on Elliot, but she’s just really good at helping her friends push their boundaries in really low key and safe ways.
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