Not even for people? I dont know why that sounds so strange but it does.

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You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?

The written form was neutral until Western influence inspired the creation of a female version, replacing the first radical "person" with "woman".

Don't forget the word 祂 for divine beings as the 4th

Ta?

*its

I mean, in casual spoken finnish, "it" dominates. The third person singular for people "hän" is already gender neutral, but I guess we prefer not to make assumptions about anyone's personhood :D. Or maybe it (se) just rolls off the tongue more conveniently.

Tell your friend a follower of Christ who speaks native English says "it" is valid.

Yeah I'd be quite uncomfortable with calling anyone "it". I'll gladly use they/them, I'd be down to learn some neopronouns, but calling someone "it" is something I'd rather avoid. Even if someone likes "it" pronouns, I'd still feel incredibly weird doing so in public. Calling people an "it" is often done here to mock androgynous people. It feels dehumanizing. If I were to do so in public, it would mean they people around me (who don't know the other person's preference) would probably assume I'm doing so to mock them.

I have friends who use "it". It feels kind of weird and wrong for me as if I'm objectifying it but if that's what it wants it's what it gets.

ftfy

To me "it" dehumanises someone doen to an object.

I have "it" in my Discord description, along with cpt.

Holy shit... You can have domains that end in .dog?

"It" is personally my favorite neutral pronoun, but it has so much cultural baggage attached to it that it doesn't feel like a viable option. Why does a squirrel or a ficus or a robot get to be called "it" by default, but not a person? It isn't fair.

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...Waow

What a tasteful website design

The back story is that he was elbowed in the face on the way to the car, and probably had stage makeup on.

https://chatterbusy.removed/2013/07/daniel-radcliffe-appears-exhausted-with.html?m=1

Don't learn Finnish I guess.

No gendered pronouns and we honestly use "it" (se) as a pronoun. No, I would never use it in English unless I meant to purposefully dehumanise someone, but in Finnish it's just the normal colloquial version of a personal pronoun, whereas "hän" is a 3rd person pronoun that's more formal, (but also non-gendered) . Pets usually get to be referred to as "hän" with the more formal personal pronoun, weirdly enough.

You wouldn't like how people in Finland speak then 😅

(We have hän for s/he but almost everyone just uses se {it} in spoken language)

Don't read Lois McMaster Bujolds "Vorkosigan Saga" One of the bio engineered races preferred "it" when being gendered.

Why would you feel gross respecting a trans person's preferred pronouns? If a trans person wants to be thought of as an object, would you genuinely think of it as an object, or would you think of it as a person but still call it by its preferred pronouns? Because the second option would cause cognitive dissonance and might be the reason you'd feel gross.

Can't be dehumanizing if you use it for all humans XD

It's not. In academic writing the gender neutral is they/them.

Why?