To quote myself (http://www.livejournal.com/users/memevector/1089.html):
"I have this idea that my LJ is going to be a gender-pronoun-free zone.
"One possible objection to my plan would be that particular people may have a personal objection to being referred to without including their gender. So I'm open to requests from individuals to use a traditional gendered pronoun for them personally, or indeed a particular ungendered pronoun of their choice."
<snip>
"... if I refer to someone by an ungendered pronoun, then I'm not implying some particular experience (or opinion) of their own personal gender. My choice of words is correlated not with something about them, but with my view that it would be better not to drag gender - any gender - into things when it's not relevant."
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branchandroot
Re: tangentially
Date: 2003-03-19 11:26 pm (UTC)"I have this idea that my LJ is going to be a gender-pronoun-free zone.
"One possible objection to my plan would be that particular people may have a personal objection to being referred to without including their gender. So I'm open to requests from individuals to use a traditional gendered pronoun for them personally, or indeed a particular ungendered pronoun of their choice."
<snip>
"... if I refer to someone by an ungendered pronoun, then I'm not implying some particular experience (or opinion) of their own personal gender. My choice of words is correlated not with something about them, but with my view that it would be better not to drag gender - any gender - into things when it's not relevant."
Ze's not asked me not to :-)