SANITYAn interesting panel discussion on Preferred Pronouns featuring Helen Joyce, Maya Forstater, Malcolm Clark, Alastair Gunn and Stella O’Malley

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[–]r2d2_21 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

interesting things to discuss with the pronouns nonsense

Such as? 🤨

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why they have appeared, what is happening in languages that aren’t English, including languages that don’t have gendered pronouns. Whether pronoun fixation is also a reaction to social media and seeing other write about you in a way that previous generations never have. Unless you were famous or notable, twenty years ago no one would ever write about you (except maybe your doctor or teacher), now with social media a lot of people are able to read what other have written about them and that could be disconcerting. Some of the behaviour around pronouns mimics the use of tu and vous in French, with singular pronouns being reserved for familiarity like tu is.

The linguistic stuff I found fascinating.