{"id":1294,"date":"2024-04-15T21:12:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/en\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2024-04-22T09:06:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T07:06:51","slug":"how-should-i-use-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/how-should-i-use-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"How should I use pronouns?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/15-How-should-I-use-pronouns-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1411\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun. A gender neutral or gender inclusive pronoun is a pronoun which does not associate a gender with the individual who is being discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Some languages, such as English, do not have a gender neutral or third gender pronoun available, and this has been criticized, since in many instances, writers, speakers, etc. use \u201che\/his\u201d when referring to a generic individual in the third person. Also, the dichotomy of \u201che and she\u201d in English does not leave room for other gender identities, which is a source of frustration to the transgender and gender queer communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this reason, some people use a gender-neutral pronoun such as \u2018they\u2019 (e.g., \u2018Pip drives their car to work. They don\u2019t like walking because it takes them too long\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>A distinction can be made between three types of languages, the natural gender language, the grammatical gender language and the genderless language, and the accompanying strategies to achieve gender neutrality which can also reinforce tendencies of linguistic change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pronoun is a word that substitutes for a noun. A gender neutral or gender inclusive pronoun is a pronoun which does not associate a gender with the individual who is being discussed. Some languages, such as English, do not have a gender neutral or third gender pronoun available, and this has been criticized, since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gender101.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}