Title: Elision vs. Choice Date: 2020-01-01 Category: commentary Tags: categorization Status: draft > 'do gender less, confine it to less, use it for less, and use other words for the boxes if you can' older works (pre-second wave feminism?) would actually say "man" (or "woman"—see how anachronistic it feels to put the female option second and in parentheses?), presumably not because human nature has changed that much, but because of shifting cultural priorities about when sex is "relevant." (Modern speakers [similarly frown on](https://agentultra.com/blog/the-black-man-stopped-me/) mentioning race when it's not relevant.)