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-[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.
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- * 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
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-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.