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	Gender-neutral pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gender-neutral or epicene pronouns are pronouns that neither reveal nor imply the gender or the sex of a person or thing being referred to.
		All pronouns (except interrogative) can be declined into one of 4 cases, showing their state as subject, possesion, direct or indirect object in the sentence.
		The pronoun "athu", generally used for objects and animals (similar to "that" in English) and considered derogatory when used for a person, is sometimes used in slang and informal conversations in a humorous way.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epicene_pronoun (881 words)

	Book Encyclopedia - Web Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gender-neutral or epicene pronouns are pronouns that neither reveal nor imply sex or gender when referring to people, animals or things.
		However, at the time around May Fourth Movement, a new pronoun 她 (tā) has been invented to represent "she" and 他 is now often used as "he" only.
		Standard Esperanto has the third person pronouns ŝi, li, and ĝi for she, he, and it, respectively; however, some speakers use the neologism ri as a gender-neutral third person pronoun.
	www.bookencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Gender-neutral_pronoun (551 words)

	God and gender - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Greek pronoun (αὐτός) translated "Him" in John 14, speaking of the Holy Spirit, refers to self in all persons: him, her, it.
		With regard to the pronouns employed in speaking of the Holy Spirit, in Indo-European languages (and some other languages as well), the masculine pronoun can be used in either a masculine or a gender-indefinite sense, while the feminine pronoun is always feminine.
		In this approach, one rewrites most sentences to remove third-person pronouns, but occasionally the pronoun "he" is allowed in order to preserve readability and the original sentence structure.
	www.free-definition.com /God-and-gender.html (3686 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Androgyny
		" is sometimes given as a synonym for androgyne, androgyny is generally understood today to be a psychological blending of gender traits, while hermaphroditism describes those who possess some of the actual sex organs of both genders.
		Some cultures have revered the androgyne as a divine union of earthly principles, and many religions have worshipped gods that represented the combination of male and female.
		The Vikings worshipped the valkyrie Bruennhilde, the androgynous daughter of Wotan, king of the gods.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/androgyny.html (873 words)

	GNP FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
		Gendered pronouns are those that indicate gender: he, she, him, her, hers, his, hisself or himself, herself, and derivative forms like she'd or he'd.
		And then there's the issue of whether or not "he" or "she" gets to go first, (most people instinctively put the masculine first), or whether or not they should be alternated for fairness, and if they are alternated should that be done in a random fashion or strictly by taking turns, and blah blah blah.
		There is a problem of no longer being able to use "he" and "she" to differentiate between two people when a man and a woman are being spoken of, but that problem already exists when people of the same sex are spoken of, so it's not terribly new or difficult.
	www.aetherlumina.com /gnp/faq.html (6378 words)

	Darn Those New Names and Pronouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I've come to realize that one of the most difficult parts of my journey as the parent of a female-to-male offspring was learning to call my lovely daughter of 38 years by a male name.
		One more thing -- are the new pronouns and name retroactive? Am I supposed to say, "When Steve was a little girl...?" Actually, I've learned to say, "When Steve was a child, he..," realizing that Steve was actually always a boy. I just didn't know it then.
		Realize that pronouns may be the hardest part of the journey for both you AND your child.
	www.youth-guard.org /pflag-tnet/articles/pronouns.htm (405 words)

	Androgynous pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An androgynous pronoun is a pronoun that refers to both, third or other, or neither gender.
		In English, the pronouns I, me, my, you, your, we, us, our, one, and ones are personal and androgynous.
		Spivak pronouns (ey, em, eirs; from they, them, theirs)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Androgynous_pronoun (275 words)

	STARTREK.COM : Article
		An androgynous humanoid race, despite the uniformly single gender, the J'naii are a strikingly attractive people, all of them lithe-bodied and graceful in movement, in addition to their finely chiseled, delicate facial features.
		This cultural stigma manifests itself in the form accusing "deviates" of insanity among their own people requiring a court hearing followed by treatment that amounts to brainwashing.
		A neuter pronoun is used in lieu of "he" and "she," but there is no effective translation to English.
	www.startrek.com /startrek/view/library/aliens/article/70625.html (173 words)

	The Language of Social Inequality
		Behind the pronoun problem festers the issue of gender equality, or to be more accurate, gender inequality.
		Perhaps the most viable solution to this pronoun problem is to replace “he” and “she” with the wonderfully bland and androgynous “one,” which I have used several times throughout this article.
		So the pronoun shall be allowed to stay, but we cannot be oppressed by it any longer.
	paws.wcu.edu /gadfly/articlepages/spring04/language.html (702 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Temple > RPG hypersigel narrative project
		Adoption of my gender-neutral pronoun is part of my self-work for the moment, but it's unfair to force it on you guys if it's unacceptable to you for linguistic reasons.
		I think with a little time the te/ta/tai pronouns are less awkward to read and say than the zie/hir/hir pronouns, but we have to come up with a consensus.
		The gradual increase of use of those new pronouns would probably be easier for anyone but us that might eventually read this, and yes, the stats should remain loose for the narative.
	www.barbelith.com /topic/12403 (3112 words)

	False Gospel in the Stars: Virgo
		European mystics and esotericists viewed the androgyne as the primal and also the final perfected man. In other words, at the end of time, the human race is destined to be fused together into one androgynous entity.
		In Jesus the tension and polaristic strife of sex are resolved in an androgynous unity.
		At all points in the accepted text the gender of the Holy Spirit and its associated pronouns are rendered in the neuter, yet when we look at the scope of scripture and consider that the Holy Spirit could be feminine, it still seems that it may be so.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/watch-unto-prayer/virgo.html (7175 words)

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		If the subject of a sentence is singular, you cannot use the pronoun ‘they’.
		Unless the subject is a hermaphrodite, or is completely androgynous, he will be male, or she will be female.
		comment in your draft it usually means that you have used a pronoun to refer to a subject that is poorly defined.
	www.oswego.edu /~graham/addwriting.doc (301 words)

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		Disagreement between noun and verb in the sentence e.g., "A person who has traditional gender roles is more likely to be homophobic than their androgynous counterparts." Here, the noun in the sentence (a person) is singular and the pronoun (their) is plural.
		Use of sexist language Generic use of male pronouns to designate all people is not acceptable.
		Verb tense agreement e.g., "The researchers found that younger women had more egalitarian relationships than their mothers, who have more unbalanced relationships." Here, the first phrase is in the past tense (women had) while the second phrase is in the present tense (who have).
	www.yorku.ca /ecross/psy4110/paper_information.doc (1067 words)

	God and gender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Christianity, one person of God, the Son, is believed to have become incarnate as a human male; however, the other two persons of God are generally considered to be without gender, since they are not considered physical.
		For this reason some Christians feel that it is important to speak of the Holy Spirit, especially in the role of Comforter and Reconciler, with a feminine pronoun.
		Those who consider the Spirit to be feminine also point out that the functions of the Holy Spirit as characterized in Biblical texts are often those which have been associated with women: consolation, inspiration, emotional warmth, and birth of the spirit.
	www.peacelink.de /keyword/God_and_gender.php (3218 words)

	languagehat.com: EPICENE PRONOUNS.
		Going with one or the other, and being consistent, seems to be the current fad, but choosing the masculine or the feminine appears to be depend rather heavily on the field in which you're working and your level of disdain for so-called political correctness.
		The advantage that artificial gender-neutral pronouns have is that they work just as well when you don't think someone's gender is relevant (and thus don't feel the need to specify it) as when you just don't know what that gender is.
		To write about them you have to either tie yourself in knots to avoid pronouns or guess (even at the height of its acceptance, I don't think the "generic he" could really be taken as nonspecific in such a situation).
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001183.php (3081 words)

	Left Hand of Darkness - Study Guide
		Reluctant to invent a new pronoun to herald the new age of human beings, equal in life and in language (it would drive the reader mad, she claimed), she preferred to use the masculine pronoun, which, in many ways, negated the main idea in the book.
		Actually, they used to be the English genderless pronoun until the 17th or 18th century, when the grammarians declared the he was the generic, but it's quite arbitrary.
		Unfortunately, the use of the male pronoun has forever decided the fate of the Gethenians, at least in the mind of the readers, to be primarily male.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/gaybooks/lefthandofdarkness.html (19982 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| I'm a girl - just call me 'he'
		Not only was she sporting the vintage pizza delivery boy look that is fashionable at the moment among downtown lesbians, but she insisted on being referred to as "he", in spite of the fact that "he" resembled nothing so much as a cute, not even particularly androgynous, baby dyke.
		I was just getting my head round referring to this 22-year-old girl as "he", when in came another girl with long blond hair stuffed up into a chimney-sweep cap, wearing a customised T-shirt that read, "Some fags fight back".
		She says that if biological females use the pronoun "he" enough, then the power of "he" as an essential category will be eroded and maybe one day "he" and "she" will be on an equal plane.
	www.guardian.co.uk /women/story/0,3604,947722,00.html (1373 words)

	LINGUIST List 3.294: Gender
		More common-gender pronouns, using the notation subject/possessive/object: Poul Anderson's sf novel >The Day Of Their Return< uses heesh/heesh's/heesh to refer to a genderless species, the Didonians.
		The feminine object pronoun is _a_, the masculine one is _u_, which can be analysed as _au_ plus vowel coallescence and the feminine object pronoun would be really unmarked.
		There is gender distinction for the second person singular, but the second person plural (pro)noun has no gender distinction and is based on the second person singular masculine.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/3/3-294.html (604 words)

	Article: Sleeping with the Bug-Eyed Monster, by Jim C. Hines
		A truly androgynous society would be less likely to have described the landlady as feminine.
		The most obvious example is the fact that she chose to use male pronouns throughout when referring to the inhabitants of Winter.
		While the male pronoun is generally accepted to be the more generic pronoun in English, it still conveys a sense of sexual identity, and the reader begins to visualize Winter as a world of men rather than a world of androgynous hermaphrodites.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20011217/bug-eyed_monster.shtml (4835 words)

	Theatre/Dance
		He (for want of a better pronoun) sings lead for the band.
		Yitzhak, we learn, not only sings backup for Hedwig but also is his current, androgynous lover.
		Hedwig suggests that Adam and Eve were in paradise before God separated them, suggesting that bliss equals male and female together, united, in one person.
	www.kcactive.com /aande/theatre/theater2005_04_1.htm (863 words)

	Angel Integrity- graphics and full description of this one-of-a-kind sculpture and collectible fine art angel figurine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Integrity is an androgynous being, one who is neither all male nor all female but rather is completely balanced between the yin and the yang.
		Angel energy is androgynous in its natural form.
		Integrity is at ease among the rocks and grass.
	www.lindonangels.com /angelbios/integrity2.htm (245 words)

	OUTspoken!:"The Word Dance" by shyone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The pronoun game�one many of us are all too familiar with�is a favorite of mine, keeping my sexuality a sort of obvious secret.
		Whether or not to approach them about their bizarre use of pronouns then becomes your own choice.
		Whether or not you choose to confront the person, you can stand around in group conversations feeling slightly more "in the know" than the rest of those around you.
	www.outminds.com /outspoken/outspoken_column.cfm?cid=427 (348 words)

	Gender-neutral language Free discussion
		that it is a modern usage to be a gender-neutral pronoun is plain and
		But once you use pronouns instead things are a little different.
		But pronouns are different: each pronoun forces its verb to be in a
	www.xywe.com /books/61-553-gender-neutral-language-read.shtml (7134 words)

	deviantART: genderblender: Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The alternate ones are often called Epicene, or gender neutral pronouns.
		Variants: The above set is easiest to remember and use, but for the male and male-herm pronouns 'him' and 'himself' are the same.
		This fun laidback club is for people who appreciate androgyny; the intersexed, and those who are just plain androgynous in whichever way.
	genderblender.deviantart.com /journal (1478 words)

	Angel Coriandar - graphics and full description of this one-of-a-kind sculpture and collectible fine art angel figurine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Coriandar is an androgynous being, one who is neither all male nor all female but rather is completely balanced between the yin and the yang.
		Angel energy is androgynous in its natural energy form.
		I will use the pronoun "she" for convenience.
	www.lindonangels.com /angelbios/coriandar2.htm (296 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Perhaps they were outside honing their faro shuffles the day pronouns came up in third-period English.
		A pronoun should agree with its antecedent in number.
		Perhaps a more useful suggestion here is to ask someone to read your lecture notes or your hardback magnum opus, someone who is familiar with English grammar and punctuation.
	www.littleegyptmagic.com /rules2.htm (526 words)

	Replies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		God will be androgynous, but I am sure the Devil will STILL be a guy.
		I would have to have someone show me an example where the conservative IBS rendered God or a pronoun about God into a neutral or a feminine.
		The TNIV sometimes uses a generic plural pronoun in the place of a masculine singular pronoun, making it more consistent with contemporary English practice.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/617184/replies?c=1 (612 words)

	The 'Culture' of Crossdressing
		I'll assume that you are using the term 'androgyne' to mean one who is androgynous.
		The colloquial usage of androgynous is somewhere between 2a and 3 above.
		Quite often, individuals who make an androgynous presentation will employ crossdressing as a means of achieving the desired effect.
	www.cydathria.com /ms_donna/cd_culture.html (1105 words)

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