I found someone's carton of SlimFast powder while trying not to knock over my roommate's piles of diced vegetables today -- ugh! And enough about that.
I was trying to revamp a handout for people with friends who want/have come out of the closet, and came across a nifty little pronoun the LGBQTT (that's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer/Questioning, Trans and Two-Spirited) community came up with: hir (pronounced like "here"). I remember in Grade 7, when we tried to write using a male/female symbol instead of him/her for a day -- I found out later my English teacher majored in English language, not English lit -- and what a nightmare that was. These little bits of gendered language have been catching my attention lately, and in the stranges places. For example, why is it that in French, 'husband' is 'mari', but 'wife' is 'femme'? So a woman is married to a man, but a man 'has' a woman? Intriguing.
I was trying to revamp a handout for people with friends who want/have come out of the closet, and came across a nifty little pronoun the LGBQTT (that's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer/Questioning, Trans and Two-Spirited) community came up with: hir (pronounced like "here"). I remember in Grade 7, when we tried to write using a male/female symbol instead of him/her for a day -- I found out later my English teacher majored in English language, not English lit -- and what a nightmare that was. These little bits of gendered language have been catching my attention lately, and in the stranges places. For example, why is it that in French, 'husband' is 'mari', but 'wife' is 'femme'? So a woman is married to a man, but a man 'has' a woman? Intriguing.
