There should be more widespread gender-neutral titles, for those fence-sitting centrists who aren’t interested in defending normative gender roles but don’t have the wherewithal to transition.
Having said that, if “Dr.” is an example, “Mr.”
would become gender-neutral, with “Mrs.”/“Ms.” becoming archaisms like “Doctrix”. The other alternative is further generalising the relatively novel title Mx, which would also have the benefit of infuriating the TERFs
i think the trouble with making the masculine versions the new neutral is that it can 1. come across as erasing women/non men and 2. can feel especially offensive to transfems. so while it would be an easy solution, it might not be the best.
on the other hand, i try to do my part and for example only use actor and waiter and never actress and waitress :3
english is very nice for how few gendered words it has (unlike some horrible other languages ;w;) and i love to try to speak completely gender neutral
There should be more widespread gender-neutral titles, for those fence-sitting centrists who aren’t interested in defending normative gender roles but don’t have the wherewithal to transition.
Having said that, if “Dr.” is an example, “Mr.” would become gender-neutral, with “Mrs.”/“Ms.” becoming archaisms like “Doctrix”. The other alternative is further generalising the relatively novel title Mx, which would also have the benefit of infuriating the TERFs
i think the trouble with making the masculine versions the new neutral is that it can 1. come across as erasing women/non men and 2. can feel especially offensive to transfems. so while it would be an easy solution, it might not be the best.
on the other hand, i try to do my part and for example only use actor and waiter and never actress and waitress :3
english is very nice for how few gendered words it has (unlike some horrible other languages ;w;) and i love to try to speak completely gender neutral
I’d like to make Sir gender neutral.
Or madam!
Yeah we already had a time where male titles were the default.