X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fa-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md;h=b4895329cca5b8bd57ddae4c3a88aa919a390802;hb=488ce17c7485679b757abb2f16a7dd683ce45b36;hp=c47c4f4e6cfcd40c44455071f3d858982f932a0c;hpb=6473fc62df3d356c22092f3ea98eeba06acef514;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md index c47c4f4..b489532 100644 --- a/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md +++ b/content/drafts/a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md @@ -8,13 +8,4 @@ Status: draft > > —Zora Neale Hurston -[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. - - -Considerations— - * Scifi and mystery authors - * it and they are more ambiguous, can refer to non-agent parts of speech - * they gets conjugated as a plural even in singular usage - * pronouns in English are less bad than Hebrew nouns - -Aella https://knowingless.com/2019/06/06/side-effects-of-preferred-pronouns/ +In a previous post, ["Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to My Gender Problems"](http://unremediatedgender.space/2021/May/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems/), I told the story about how I've "always" (since puberty) had this obsessive erotic fantasy about being a woman and used to think it was immoral to believe in psychological sex differences, until I read these Sequences of _super great_ blog posts by some guy named Eliezer Yudkowsky.