5fish
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You know I have more of an issue with gender neutral use of pronouns... I think using he and she is find but some if not many in the LGBTQ community have issues with gender based pronouns like he, she, him, her... I think it be a ugly writing style with just it, they, them, and so on but that is me...It seems like I made an error and should not have brought this up.
You find there a genderless languages in our world....
Gender neutrality in genderless languages - Wikipedia
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A genderless language is a natural or constructed language that has no distinctions of grammatical gender—that is, no categories requiring morphological agreement between nouns and associated pronouns, adjectives, articles, or verbs.[1]
The notion of a genderless language is distinct from that of gender neutrality or gender-neutral language, which is wording that does not presuppose a particular natural gender. A discourse in a grammatically genderless language is not necessarily gender-neutral,[1] although genderless languages exclude many possibilities for reinforcement of gender-related stereotypes, such as using masculine pronouns when referring to persons by their occupations (although some languages that may be identified as genderless, including English, do have distinct male and female pronouns). A lack of gendered pronouns is also distinct from a lack of gender in the grammatical sense.
Genderless languages do have various means to recognize gender, such as gender-specific words (mother, son, etc., and distinct pronouns such as he and she in some cases), as well as gender-specific context, both biological and cultural.[1]
Genderless languages are listed at List of languages by type of grammatical genders. Genderless languages include the Indo-European languages Armenian, Bengali, Persian, Zemiaki[2] and Central Kurdish (Sorani Dialect), all the modern Turkic languages (such as Turkish) and Kartvelian languages (including Georgian), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and most Austronesian languages (such as the Polynesian languages).[citation needed]
There is gender neutral language use...
Gender-neutral language - Wikipedia
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Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids bias towards a particular sex or social gender. In English, this includes use of nouns that are not gender-specific to refer to roles or professions,[1] formation of phrases in a coequal manner, and discontinuing the blanket use of male terms.[2] For example, the words policeman[3][4] and stewardess[5][6] are gender-specific job titles; the corresponding gender-neutral terms are police officer[7][8] and flight attendant.[9][10] Other gender-specific terms, such as actor and actress, may be replaced by the originally male term; for example, actor used regardless of gender.[11][12][13] Some terms, such as chairman,[14][15] that contain the component -man but have traditionally been used to refer to persons regardless of sex are now seen by some as gender-specific.[16] An example of forming phrases in a coequal manner would be using husband and wife instead of man and wife.[17] Examples of discontinuing the blanket use of male terms in English are referring to those with unknown or indeterminate genders as singular they, in place of he or she, or s/he, and using humans, people, or humankind, instead of man or mankind