Long paved roads
Someone wrote…
I can avoid female gendered pronouns. I can take long paved roads in my sentence and you won’t even notice it. But when I can’t, I die a little.
What’s your experience?
Posted by Freiya on November 26th, 2013 at 08:00 am
Category: your voice 3 comments »
November 26th, 2013 at 7:23 pm |
I do this too and you describe it so perfectly. There are seriously chills running up by back!
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December 7th, 2013 at 2:27 pm |
Over the past few months, pronouns have been avoided most of the time. Even cashiers and waitstaff at restaurants have stopped calling me “miss”. However, on the rare occasion that a female pronouns slips out of somebody’s lips, IT HURTS!
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December 8th, 2013 at 4:23 pm |
I definitely know that experience, but I never have felt “required” to use a gendered pronoun for myself or anyone that didn’t want to be gendered (I use singular They instead) I just recently had a visit from my out-of-state parents and they kept throwing around “daughter” and “she” in public while I clearly do not resemble one. It feels like ice picks trying to slowly chip away at my identity.
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