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Gender neutral terms?
12 years ago
"We live in a world that creates impossible standards... I say to all of that, 'Screw you and die.' We should celebrate imperfection, because that's the one thing all of us can achieve."
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While working more on my story I'm realizing that I'm having quite an issue with describing the main character(and later on numerous others as many Kyseer are born genderless). While Jo will easily go by the term 'he', mainly because they smell like a male, Jo prefers just...well, Jo. But reading seems broken when using the term 'it' or they', especially since it doesnt work when using a specific person or when a name is in the sentence.
I know Ze, Zir, zimself etc is a common one but it sounds feminine to me.
Ive been looking up a few others and I like Ne/nem/nir/nirs/nemself quite a bit but does it come off as a new word entirely and not a gender pronoun?
Should I just keep to they/it/characters name here/ ?
What do you guys think.
I know Ze, Zir, zimself etc is a common one but it sounds feminine to me.
Ive been looking up a few others and I like Ne/nem/nir/nirs/nemself quite a bit but does it come off as a new word entirely and not a gender pronoun?
Should I just keep to they/it/characters name here/ ?
What do you guys think.
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-Dr. Seuss
Ze/zer/zis/blahblah sound nice to my ears. I'm equally down with they/it. There's a cool book with genderless alienthings called Jokka that use "it" as a pronoun and I think the author pulled it off nicely (you might like the stories, some of the ebook versions are free if you have the patience to read on a computer -- https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/mcahogarth )
And this was more of a me wanting to see how others felt, since I know to me things sound differently to one person than another.
Ill probably stick to It/they since Ill probably forget to write zi/zer/ what have you down. ;-;
tl;dr context if you're going to start reading (cause it's not always explained and can be pretty wut sometimes): three genders: male, female, neuter. They go through two puberties and can switch genders during these times (or not, some stay the same gender their entire lives). Generally, romantic love is reserved for within one's gender and they think it's weird for heterosexual love to exist outside the context of procreation.
This also makes me think about possibility of e-book publishing/online publishing, but I'm still unsure.
Maybe one day...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender.....ity_in_English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender.....utral_language
http://www.progress.org/fold162.htm
Maybe some of these will help?
Well that last link fucked up.
Male pronouns seem to be the most common when people aren't sure, but I don't think it'd be fair for someone to be upset if they called a genderless character a boy or girl..
I've seen a wide variety of pronouns, ranging from zhir to ze and a bunch of other letters thrown in interchangeably. While they might seem like it can get repetitive, the other pronouns might be like a speed bump for some people.