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universe_cYou guys. Pronouns.
PRONOUNS.
#TW: discussion of gendered and non-gendered pronouns
Being genderqueer myself, I really love writing genderfluid/trans characters. So, in the distant future of 5I 'verse I've seized on the opportunity to create a single-sexed, completely agendered future society. And now, frickin pronouns. Stupid English language, gendered pronouns.
My tentative scheme for pronouns is that everyone uses 'he' until they come of age. After becoming an adult - probably either first heat or actually bearing a child would be the divider - they switch to using 'she' as a pronoun. It would be generally considered polite to refer to all adults as 'she.'
Family relationships are mostly traced through the direct matrilineal descent. Everyone refers to themselves as the daughter of their mother and her line, and the son of their father(s) and her/their line(s).
So, here are my questions:
1. Third-gender pronouns y/n?
2. If Y, which ones do you like?
3. Would individuals having a preferred pronoun even make sense in the long run, when gender ceases to be a meaningful or even well-understood concept in a society? Or should everyone's pronoun be the same?
4. Would a person's preferred pronoun be preserved in the historical record at all?
So yeah, advise me!
PRONOUNS.
#TW: discussion of gendered and non-gendered pronouns
Being genderqueer myself, I really love writing genderfluid/trans characters. So, in the distant future of 5I 'verse I've seized on the opportunity to create a single-sexed, completely agendered future society. And now, frickin pronouns. Stupid English language, gendered pronouns.
My tentative scheme for pronouns is that everyone uses 'he' until they come of age. After becoming an adult - probably either first heat or actually bearing a child would be the divider - they switch to using 'she' as a pronoun. It would be generally considered polite to refer to all adults as 'she.'
Family relationships are mostly traced through the direct matrilineal descent. Everyone refers to themselves as the daughter of their mother and her line, and the son of their father(s) and her/their line(s).
So, here are my questions:
1. Third-gender pronouns y/n?
2. If Y, which ones do you like?
3. Would individuals having a preferred pronoun even make sense in the long run, when gender ceases to be a meaningful or even well-understood concept in a society? Or should everyone's pronoun be the same?
4. Would a person's preferred pronoun be preserved in the historical record at all?
So yeah, advise me!
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Date: 2013-01-07 10:58 am (UTC)I'm shamefully not very familiar with most third-gender/gender-neutral pronouns beyond 'they/them' or 'it', so I can't really speak on that part.
As for preferred pronouns vs 'everyone is the same'... you could maybe have a combination? Like, everyone is called the same thing, but there's a few out there that feel more suited towards one gender over the other and prefer to be called by the corresponding pronoun.
I hope that made sense and/or helped? o.o