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minus-squarebeejboytyson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoIt’s not. In academic writing the gender neutral is they/them.
minus-squarecsolisr@hub.azkware.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoWhich is why I was appalled to learn it late in life that “it” was reserved exclusively to non-humans, for some reason that didn’t exist in my native Spanish. The rest of my explanation would be better written on a longer blog-post of mine.
It’s not. In academic writing the gender neutral is they/them.
Which is why I was appalled to learn it late in life that “it” was reserved exclusively to non-humans, for some reason that didn’t exist in my native Spanish. The rest of my explanation would be better written on a longer blog-post of mine.