Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Does The Field Museum Want You To Refer To Sue With "Gender Neutral" Pronouns?

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Sounds like kind of a joke, so...
Though I suppose it does help normalize the stuff. Wikipedia uses 'she', but reports that the Field Museum does use 'they' on Twitter. Wikipedia claims that some people describe Sue as "a non-binary icon"...which, again: you'd think was a joke...but, given the current context of cultural insanity, who knows?
Also: there's no such thing as a "gender-neutral" pronoun in English, since no English pronouns refer on the basis of gender--except insofar as 'gender' can be used simply as a synonym for 'sex.'
Or you could say: every English pronoun is gender neutral. That's actually truer.
But 'they' is no more gender neutral than 'he' or 'she.'
(Pronouns have (linguistic) gender; they don't refer on the basis of gender.)
Also though: of course 'it' is the pronoun they're looking for; not 'they.' As in: "Sue died violently; it may have been killed by another T. rex."
This is all even sillier than it might initially seem, because the rationale for this joke is: we apparently don't really know what sex Sue was. Which is actually a whole different matter, unrelated to transgender mythology.
Everything is ridiculous now.

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