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I am female hear me roar!

wrc fan said:
Oh, and for a gender neutral pronoun, you can use "hir" or at least according to wikipedia
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Getting people to do that would make hirstory! :)

I'd be happy to switch to the use of hir, or the similar proposal to use e instead of he or she, if everyone else did. It's a chicken-and-egg problem (sorry for the female-only metaphor) because changes in language work only when speaking/writer and listener/reader both understand the meanings. So until everyone else recognizes these words, it's hard for any of us to use them, and until we use them, others won't get used to them.
 
I have no idea why anyone has a problem with "he". It's the common subset of
"she" and "he".

Maybe it's because I'm a contrarian, AND I hate bleeding hearts, but the whole need to say "she" strikes me as sooo pathetic, that I naturally have to be against it.

You don't have guys trying to rename Mother Earth to Parent Earth. And if there were any, I'd cut their nuts off and feed them to sharks.
 
baby duck monge said:
Yes, I realize that going in all the way up to the elbow isn't possible on many things smaller than a cow, but there's a reason surgeons wash up that far even when they're only making small incisions.
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Those with short arms can go into the cow up to the shoulder.

Ask puny vet students. You'll get pics.
 
Oh come on people! This thread's called "I am female hear me roar", and no one has yet brought up any kinky feline references?

I know there are several wars going on, people have jobs, and pets to feed (kids too), but priorities people. Priorities! :p
 
wrc fan said:
Oh, and for a gender neutral pronoun, you can use "hir" or at least according to wikipedia
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I don't know where it comes from, but many here use "their" in this case.

As in: "if a person forgets their sex, a quick peek in their pants will suffice".

But then we seem to have some odd conventions here - we also use the archaic "ye" for you plural, which is actually pretty useful in avoiding ambiguity.

"Any chance that ye would like to come back to my place for a coffee?"

:p
 
thedude110 said:

Those with short arms can go into the cow up to the shoulder.

Ask puny vet students. You'll get pics.
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I'm sure they don't even have to be that puny; cows can be fairly large! :eek:

My point was just that you shouldn't neglect hygene in these situations, even if you're not expecting to go in that deep. :p ;)

whooleytoo said:
Cows have shoulders? :eek:

;)
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Maybe. Do they have four shoulders? Two shoulders and a set of hips? Two sets of hips? It's all way too confusing... :confused:
 
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