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1. Tagomago (tagomago@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 21:34:54 UTC Tagomago

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   • Imogen

   @imgn If language weren't gendered, then and adjacent substantive or adjective would be required to define it when needed, I gather, as it happens in English sometimes ("a lioness", but "a female monkey"). Then again, not all gendered words correspond with sex or gender on the subject itself, like mädchen in German (Duolingo fever...). I find it OK for visibility of sexism, etc, but I have issues trying to accommodate inclusive language as a consistent, meaningful praxis.

   • Imogen (imgn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Mar-2022 21:34:57 UTC Imogen

     I had a weird dream last night that I was resisting giving my pronouns to Google and government websites that were insisting on it. (They are she/her, by the way.)

     I wish language was never gendered and we weren't so obsessed with sexing things. I remember as a microbiologist, scientists struggled to identify the sex of certain species that didn't conform to the binary. Nature rarely does. In my lab, we used numbers and polarity to describe mating types. Maybe I will change my identity to 2+ 🤓