{"id":26889,"date":"2019-03-24T21:43:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T01:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26889"},"modified":"2019-03-24T21:43:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T01:43:02","slug":"lexical-misgendering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/lexical-misgendering\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexical misgendering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford English Dictionary, having succumbed to contemporary gender voodoo, is including <em>gender-neutral<\/em> words in its latest edition.<\/p>\n<p>You can now misgender someone and rest secure in the knowledge that you have not perpetrated a grammatical atrocity. In your gaol cell.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6828953\/Oxford-English-Dictionary-includes-gender-neutral-terms-verb-misgender.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26890\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/235E2C6300000578-0-image-a-5_1553049161214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/235E2C6300000578-0-image-a-5_1553049161214.jpg 306w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/235E2C6300000578-0-image-a-5_1553049161214-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/>It&#8217;s a new issue that has proved a modern minefield \u2013 as the way we identify ourselves evolves and changes at a rapid rate.<\/p>\n<p>But now The Oxford English Dictionary has introduced gender-neutral words to help us.<\/p>\n<p>Editors said the latest additions were an \u2018attempt to grapple\u2019 with the sensitive topic.<\/p>\n<p>These include \u2018hir\u2019 and zir\u2019 as alternative pronouns to him, his or her, \u2018peoplekind\u2019 rather than mankind, and \u2018Latin@\u2019 as a gender-neutral term for someone of either sex from Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the verb \u2018misgender\u2019 could apply to anyone who unwittingly or intentionally uses a pronoun that is not preferred by the person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford English Dictionary, having succumbed to contemporary gender voodoo, is including gender-neutral words in its latest edition. You can now misgender someone and rest secure in the knowledge that you have not perpetrated a grammatical atrocity. In your gaol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/lexical-misgendering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[2152,1190],"class_list":["post-26889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-gender-confusion","tag-oxford-english-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}