Tag: gender neutral
Ursula K. Le Guin in 1976: “‘He’ is the generic pronoun, damn it, in English.”
Ursula K. Le Guin in 1988: “Until the sixteenth century the English generic singular pronoun was they/them/their, as it still is in English and American colloquial speech. It should be restored to the written language, and let the pedants and pundits squeak and gibber in the streets.”
(from this fascinating 1988 annotation of a 1976 essay on pronouns in her classic 1969 novel, Left Hand of Darkness)
never forget that party poison uses they/them pronouns
knitting in the dark 