tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670808067424090956.post9215733581955493649..comments2017-05-22T14:59:22.779-06:00Comments on Queering the Feminist Lens: Some gender neutral pronouns to considerJo(anna)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03263149478046716282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670808067424090956.post-12729012429542540932011-03-07T13:53:59.899-07:002011-03-07T13:53:59.899-07:00i hadn't heard those before, thank you!i hadn't heard those before, thank you!Jo(anna)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03263149478046716282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670808067424090956.post-63276098102110318192011-03-07T13:51:27.203-07:002011-03-07T13:51:27.203-07:00I personally dislike zie/ze/zir, mainly because it...I personally dislike zie/ze/zir, mainly because it feels jarring to read in a block of text - as you said, it doesn't sound like any other word in the language. Instead it jumps out as if it's saying, 'look at me, I'm a modern made-up word with a Z! Or an x, sometimes! I'm really cool!'<br />It's a word to derail a train of thought.<br /><br />One set of terms I came across in the mid-nineties was sie/hir.<br />Where you would use he/she, use sie.<br />Where you would use him/her, use hir.<br />Where you would use his/hers, use hirs.<br /><br />It's not perfect, but it's less jarring and it reads as a combination of the better-known pronouns, so there's something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670808067424090956.post-52895856998849673782011-03-05T13:33:33.319-07:002011-03-05T13:33:33.319-07:00I do like ze, although I appreciate what our class...I do like ze, although I appreciate what our classmate brought up about this system still reflecting a gender binary. His thoughts that gender neutral pronouns should reflect something new entirely were apt. I look forward to the pronoun workshop, with coloured name tags!Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15444933438779638801noreply@blogger.com