Executive order bans gender-neutral language in Arkansas government documents - Fayetteville Flyer
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Gov. Sanders cites an example from a Department of Health memo and claims other uses of what she calls “nonsense terms” have been reported to her office.
  • diprount_tomato@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 year ago

    First, that’s not the Bible. Second, “we” is not “gender-neutral”, it’s just the standard 1st person plural

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          Look, I know it’s sophistry, but so is the EO in the OP. But the fact of the matter is

          • I
          • you
          • it
          • we
          • they
          • me
          • you
          • us
          • them
          • this
          • that
          • these
          • those
          • such
          • mine
          • yours
          • ours
          • theirs
          • who
          • whom
          • whomever
          • whomsoever
          • what
          • whatever
          • which
          • whichever
          • whose
          • myself
          • yourself
          • self
          • itself
          • ourselves
          • yourselves
          • themselves
          • each other
          • one another
          • all
          • another
          • anybody
          • anyone
          • anything
          • both
          • each
          • either
          • everything
          • everybody
          • everyone
          • few
          • many
          • most
          • neither
          • nobody
          • none
          • no-one
          • nothing
          • several

          are all gender-neutral. Some of them can’t logically refer to gender, true, but that doesn’t make them start being gendered either.

          EDIT: ANNNND many of them do refer to an individual (I, me, you…)