Archive for Gender
Article from ACES (an organization of editors) about this year’s changes to the AP Stylebook. (Article was published in May.) One particularly noteworthy part: Lead stylebook editor Paula Froke said the gender-neutral language entry “aims to treat people equally and is inclusive of people whose gender identity is not strictly male or female.” (I haven’t […]
I was idly wondering a few days ago whether there’s a non-gendered term for an aunt or uncle. Such a term might be useful (for example) for referring collectively to a group of aunts and uncles, or for referring to a specific aunt-or-uncle of unknown gender, or for referring to a nonbinary-gendered aunt or uncle. […]
Article from 2012 about Sweden’s new gender-neutral pronoun.
Some common exceptions to the usual rule in Spanish that words that end in -o are grammatically masculine-gendered and words that end in -a are grammatically feminine-gendered.
dd { margin-bottom: 20px; } I was completely oblivious to the vocal fry/“creaky voice” phenomenon until today. A friend posted about it, and I did a quick search, and...
The other day, Mary Anne linked to an article that claimed that the new gender-neutral title “Mx” was being officially added to the OED. I'm not linking to that article...
I've written about gender-neutral pronouns before. Here's an article from a couple months ago about the origin of gender-neutral "he" along with a discussion of singular "they."...
It's traditional in English to refer to ships using female pronouns. I've known that all my life, but I think this is the first time I've consciously noticed a case...
Ben Zimmer may have tracked down the first use of the word "Ms." Believe it or not, the word was suggested in 1901 in the Springfield, Massachusetts Sunday Republican. The...
Two lesbian friends of mine alerted me tonight to a new word: "gayelle." It's a fascinating attempt to coin a new word. The people over at gayelle.org (a.k.a. sapphicchic.com) are...