nonbinary gender pronouns

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed
Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (180 of them)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n13/amia-srinivasan/he-she-one-they-ho-hus-hum-ita

Ethics requires that we embrace a practice of naming that makes people’s passage through the world more bearable. But ethics is not exhausted by such a practice. A true ethical relation requires that we see the other, just as we see ourselves, as ultimately beyond names and categories: not because (as liberals like to say) we are ‘all human’ or ‘all persons’, but because each of us exists, finally, beyond the reach of mere words. We all know this instinctively in our own case: that feeling of exceeding, bursting beyond, all the words that can be truly applied to us. What does it take for us recognise that this is true, too, of everyone else: of him and her, of them, of you?

j., Monday, 29 June 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link

Reading this now..

xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 June 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link

is this ... meta-woke?

assert (MatthewK), Monday, 29 June 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link

It's a very good essay on language and politics and better than Sharkey's concern trolling.

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 09:18 (three years ago) link

I was just kidding, it seemed like an overreach to start with pronouns and blast through to “why is language dealing with the ineffable anyway?” Spose I’d better read it now.

assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 09:49 (three years ago) link


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.