#generic he

[toxxsystem]

When taking into account the full picture I don't think any one pronoun SHOULD be used as our default gender neutral... But out of all the options before "they" became commonplace, like generic he, generic she, alternating, stupid s/he stuff... It brings me so much joy to be reading a text and suddenly read "hir"

Like purely in my own personal corner I would love to just say "if someone was [X] hir experience would be..." just to use these wonderful uncommon pronouns on my hypothetical scenario fill in person. Heck Im not even called "he" often enough, never mind any cooler pronouns like ze or ey.

Past writers who made an attempt at a gender neutral pronoun, whether for legal documents or in a sci fi novel, I love y'all <3

-chris

[imoga-pride]

is there a term for when you use he/him pronouns but in a gender neutral way?

Generic he? I can recall exterpronominal but not sure.

[calyxaomphalos]

Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Man - Brain Pickings - Pocket

A journey to where the semicolon meets the soul.

Le Guin writes:

I am a man. Now you may think I’ve made some kind of silly mistake about gender, or maybe that I’m trying to fool you, because my first name ends in a, and I own three bras, and I’ve been pregnant five times, and other things like that that you might have noticed, little details. But details don’t matter… I predate the invention of women by decades.