Sylvia Dziuba
1 min readAug 18, 2021

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I appreciate your opinion Erjona, maybe you’re right maybe from the start the language should have had a gender-neutral way to refer to a single person, but there are two, and I refuse to use a plural or an avalanche of made-up pronouns, I have enough trouble remembering people’s names as is. Also, this is becoming a much bigger issue; people are losing their jobs for pronoun slip-up’s and some countries are considering making this a legal issue, meaning that if a student wakes up one morning and decides to be a xir/them and briefly announces that to their teacher at the start of the class — if that teacher forgets (because another 6 students decided to do the same, except using different pronouns, zir/zis, her/them etc) they can not only lose their job (which is happening right now, just google it) but soon they might also face time in prison. The job of the pronoun isn’t to express one's identity or how you feel, its job is to refer to your biological sex.

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Sylvia Dziuba
Sylvia Dziuba

Written by Sylvia Dziuba

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