{"id":16572,"date":"2016-04-30T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16572"},"modified":"2016-04-30T16:21:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:21:01","slug":"from-the-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16572","title":{"rendered":"From the ? Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

From: “My Buddy” <\/p>\n

Subject: Pondering pronouns: Are ‘he’ and ‘she’ giving way to ‘they’? – StarTribune.com<\/p>\n

Oh, labels. The use of \u201cMx.\u201d, looms?<\/p>\n

From http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/do-you-go-by-he-him-she-her-or-they-ze-hir-pronouns-are-evolving\/377284251\/:
\n. . . nonsexist language reform has been markedly successful in making job terms more gender-neutral, noting a not so distant past when there were firemen, stewardesses, policemen and chairmen. Today, we refer to firefighters, flight attendants, police officers and committee chairs without missing a beat.<\/p>\n

They could be men. They could be women. They could be theys.<\/p>\n

And:<\/p>\n

One indication of how quickly change can happen these days came late last year when the Times used a new courtesy title, Mx., when quoting a bookstore employee named Senia Hardwick. It clearly wasn\u2019t the Times\u2019 idea, describing Hardwick as someone \u201cwho prefers not to be assigned a gender \u2014 and also insists on the gender-neutral Mx. in place of Ms. or Mr.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I commented back to my Buddy:<\/p>\n

If I was reading the Times article out-loud how would I “pronoun”ce that?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From: “My Buddy” Subject: Pondering pronouns: Are ‘he’ and ‘she’ giving way to ‘they’? – StarTribune.com Oh, labels. The use of \u201cMx.\u201d, looms? From…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16576,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16572\/revisions\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}