Mastodawn

I want to flag that I've decided to move towards replacing gendered pronouns in my speech and writing with they/them. The transition will take a while, but it is now underway.

If it's important to you to be referred to as he/him or she/her (eg you're trans and they/them feels like a denial of your internal sense of gender), please be a squeaky wheel. As always, I'll do my best best to remember and use your preferred pronouns.

But consider this;

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#pronouns #GenderedPronouns

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Martijn Vos

@strypey

I don't quite understand why pronouns ever needed to be gendered in the first place. Regardless of changing gender identities, it seems to me there must always have been a need for a non gendered pronoun for when you don't know the gender of the person you're discussing. Well, "they" has always worked, I guess. If it was good enough for Shakespeare, I'm certainly fine with it.