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RadiationTherapy

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10. Part of this is due to our language "not working well" without knowing/assigning a gender.

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 02:29 PM

Mar 2013

Another part is that (based on the research of Whorf, Sapir, and Korzybski) the language we use conditions our reality. The combination of our language being "clumsy" when gender is not assigned and the notion that the language we use shapes the universe we observe work synergetically to manifest in many of the issues in your excerpt. To address this, it seems we would need to rigorously reform the syntactic structure of English (and the Romance languages and possibly several others, etc).

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Things I�ve Learned From Writing Under A Gender-Neutral Name [View all] redqueen Mar 2013 OP

+1 I just went over to HuffPo to read some of Nico Lang's other writing... Little Star Mar 2013 #1

Glad you liked it! redqueen Mar 2013 #2

Hey redqueen! Tien1985 Mar 2013 #11

OMG THANK YOU!!!! redqueen Mar 2013 #12

Fascinating article BainsBane Mar 2013 #3

He captures so much, so well. redqueen Mar 2013 #6

That was great. Thanks! Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #4

LIKE! MuseRider Mar 2013 #5

10th DU Rec. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #7

K&R Solly Mack Mar 2013 #8

This is awesome ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #9

Part of this is due to our language "not working well" without knowing/assigning a gender. RadiationTherapy Mar 2013 #10

That only applies to the last paragraph, about the assignment. redqueen Mar 2013 #13

Yeah, but I wanted to add something other than that, hahaha. RadiationTherapy Mar 2013 #20

I'm not convinced by the central premise - I don't think Nico is gender neutral. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2013 #14

I know two men named Nico and no women named Nico. Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #15

Neko Case... TeeYiYi Mar 2013 #21

That was nice. I meant Nico as spelled. And personally. Luminous Animal Mar 2013 #24

And in the Romance Languages, nouns ending in "o" Ms. Toad Mar 2013 #16

You don't see it much at all in the US. Spider Jerusalem Mar 2013 #22

A friend and his Japanese wife named their daughter Nico. They told me it means tblue37 Mar 2013 #23

Most excellent jumping off spot libodem Mar 2013 #17

I agree, so much gender role conditioning... redqueen Mar 2013 #18

I really did libodem Mar 2013 #19