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Julie Phillips
@julie-phillips.com
Author of THE BABY ON THE FIRE ESCAPE, on creative work and mothering. Biographer of Ursula K. Le Guin (forthcoming) & James Tiptree, Jr.
Cover photo: tributes left at the grave of George Eliot, Highgate Cemetery, London, 2021.
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Whereas it doesn't matter at all in Dutch what gender a noun is, you could make them all non-binary and their meaning wouldn't change. You'd just have to adjust the pronouns so you're not calling objects "he." Yet it makes people so...uncomfortable if you get it wrong.
JP
Julie Phillips
@julie-phillips.com
Author of THE BABY ON THE FIRE ESCAPE, on creative work and mothering. Biographer of Ursula K. Le Guin (forthcoming) & James Tiptree, Jr.
Cover photo: tributes left at the grave of George Eliot, Highgate Cemetery, London, 2021.
414 followers275 following157 posts