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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.
My gender-pronouns are: They/them/their.
I am: 26 years old, a feminist, liberal, an atheist, an omnivore, and an ISFJ.
The Feminist: Intersectional, body positive, pro-choice, and sex positive.
My privileged identities include: Female assigned at birth (trans* privilege), white, able-bodied, allistic (?), dyadic, monogamous.
My non-privileged/oppressed identities include: Gender-fluid, fat, gray-a, neuroatypical, and gay.
I have: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.
I like: Pets & animals, animal welfare, pet care & pet care education, ~*SCIENCE!*~, anatomy & physiology, roleplaying, anime/manga, computer & video games, rock & metal music.
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Male Privilege #91
It’s never “her or his”.
Try saying that. Try writing it
“His or hers” is so ingrained that it seems natural “his” should always come first.
Maybe sprinkle in a few “her or his“‘s into your next term paper to make your professor reread the page several times with the sense that there is an error somewhere…
(Source: all-about-male-privilege)
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Or we could use (singular) “they” to not reinforce the gender binary.
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I make an effort to do this in speaking and in writing. Alternatively, I use “her” as the default singular catch-all at...
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we could also move toward using gender neutral pronouns or something you know because neither “his or her” nor “her or...
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I would so do this, but I just use they/their. I don’t care if it gets marked wrong (which it has) because just by...
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Doing it.
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I actually consciously use “hers or his” all the time, or just the gender neutral “theirs/them” etc. Also, it’s way...
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