Monday 17 October 2016

gender neutral language/pronouns

GENDER NEUTRAL LANGUAGE
Many gender neutral people feel uncomfortable being addressed with masculine or feminine pronouns. They have decided to launch some gender neutral pronouns which are not associated with biological gender. The only English recognised gender neutral pronoun is they but it is not accepted by everyone. This is why some have attempted to introduce gender neutral language.
Gender neutral language avoids prejudices toward a specific social gender.
Example:  policeman becomes police officer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_language

During the 1970s, feminists Casey Miller and Kate Swift wrote The Handbook Of Nonsexist Writing based on gender neutral language to stop excluding and discriminating women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handbook_of_Nonsexist_Writing


https://apps.carleton.edu/student/orgs/saga/pronouns/
https://genderneutralpronoun.wordpress.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34901704

Guidelines for gender neutral language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_language

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