1 Title: A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
4 Tags: autogynephilia, bullet-biting, cathartic, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, epistemic horror, my robot cult, personal, sex differences, two-type taxonomy
7 > If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.
9 > —Zora Neale Hurston
11 [In a February 2021 Facebook post, Eliezer Yudkowsky inveighs against English's system of singular third-person pronouns](https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10159421750419228). As a matter of clean language design, you shouldn't have to identify a subject as female or male just in order to refer to them with a pronoun.
15 * Scifi and mystery authors
16 * it and they are more ambiguous, can refer to non-agent parts of speech
17 * they gets conjugated as a plural even in singular usage
18 * pronouns in English are less bad than Hebrew nouns
20 Aella https://knowingless.com/2019/06/06/side-effects-of-preferred-pronouns/