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July 03, 2007
An experiment
In the English language, we are taught to use the masculine as the default indefinite gender, and only specify female when the person is known to be female. Feminists have argued that this "otherizes" women, and leads to abuse. Anti-Feminists have said that this is nonsense, and that anything else is an abuse of language, and feminists should just get over themselves...
I have decided that for the next month, whenever I don't know the gender of a person-- or if the gender doesn't matter-- I will assume the feminine. I don't know what will be the outcome, but I'm curious to find out. Anyone else want to join in?
Posted by Andrew at July 3, 2007 10:30 AM