'Jaynestown'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I have new-ish hair.
Instead of taking off 4+ inches as I'd expected we'd do, my lovely stylist convinced me to only take off two inches and add in a lot more layering (which I'd expected to do regardless) and surprise, surprise, my hair, which has been waving slightly for the past few years, revealed itself to have really deep waves and even some curl! Go figure.
JZ, all I'd need is a minion running ahead to whistle "Farmer in the Dell" and, presto, Gimp!Omar. Indeed. Although it's not actually hard to be above this place.
Congratulations, Seska!
you can no longer make the assumption that (to use Burrell's example from way above), "The pregnant woman should talk to her doctor," is correct
Wait--surely if you've established woman you've established her? Otherwise I have little else to hold onto.
TiVo has grabbed an episode of Real Sex for me. Oh, lordie. HBO has been doing all this all this time? I'm so naive.
(Again, the irony, it burns.)
Literally?
It's what happens when you have too many ironies in the fire.
Wait--surely if you've established woman you've established her?
No, I meant that both "woman" and "her" (I'm linking them for the purposes of this example) aren't always going to apply when talking about pregnancy.
I'm with you on the assumption that once you've established woman, then the pronoun would be "her."
I meant that both "woman" and "her" (I'm linking them for the purposes of this example) aren't always going to apply when talking about pregnancy.
Oh, okay. Because Burrell's example was "woman" and "their", which I agree is hella clumsy.
I don't see why academic writing never has occasion to refer to unknown genders, and I'm never going to err on the side of assigning gender for no reason, but if you do know and have already specified, why the hell not just keep saying so?
Oh, okay. Because Burrell's example was "woman" and "their", which I agree is hella clumsy.
Yeah, I moved on from pronouns to navigating how to talk about a pregnant person who might not identify as a woman. Certainly not run-of-the-mill stuff.
Congrats, Seska!! How exciting. You guys are beautiful!!
In other news, I totally got to hold, snuggle, and play with a freaking 6 month old capuchin monkey this morning. A freaking monkey. He was awesome. His name was Seymour and he totally snuggled my neck, inside my fleece, and NIBBLED MY FACE. It was brilliant.
For what it is worth, a lot of publishers have the standard of alternating between "he/him/his" and "she/her/hers" as gender neutral pronouns. That is the first time you make a gender neutral reference it is author's choice. But next reference you have to make the opposite choice you made last time. So if you start out with "she" as a generic reference to human beings of both genders, next generic reference has to use "he" (Or "him" or "his" depending.
you can no longer make the assumption that (to use Burrell's example from way above), "The pregnant woman should talk to her doctor," is correct
Heh. Glad I am not the only one thinking of the many pregnant men of my acquaintance.