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Apr 27 9:38 am
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morrismaven: Canadian Eh-B-C » Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog I knew it was curds and not just cottage cheese! I mean, you know, to the degree that those are different things.

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I knew it was curds and not just cottage cheese! I mean, you know, to the degree that those are different things.

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Mar 6 1:25 pm
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“Can’t we English-speakers just agree upon a gender-neutral pronoun?” attorney Paul Easton recently Twittered. “Tired of PC grammar gymnastics.” Easton isn’t alone. There have been at least 18 recent tweets about the fact that English has no grammatically correct substitutes for words like “he,” “him,” and “his” that do not have a gender implied. Consider the sentence “Everyone loves his mother.” The word “his” may be seen as both sexist and inaccurate, but replacing it with “his or her” seems cumbersome, and “their” is grammatically incorrect.”

On Twitter, is it ‘he or she’ or ‘they’ or ‘ip’? - CNN.com

I agree that this is a problem.  Can’t we just fix this by agreeing that “their” should be acceptable grammar?  Everyone uses it this way already.

On a cool, personal note, this article quotes a friend:

While everyone knows that “men at work” means “people working,” studies have shown that gendered words do make a difference in how we perceive things, said Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, assistant professor of linguistics at The Ohio State University.

“If you ask children to draw ‘cavemen,’ they do draw cave men,” she said.

(via jeffmiller)

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Aug 18 7:09 pm
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Hmm, maybe we should try this method: “I’ve given up on keeping Tupperware containers in space-saving arrangements with their lids stacked separately. The great Tupperware-bottom towers always collapse and fall out of the cabinet, and I can never find the right lid.I’m willing to use the necessary amount of space to keep all of my Tupperware and Tupperware-like imitation containers closed with their proper lids and stacked normally all the time.My 25-year-long frustration with the Tupperware cabinet has now ended, and it’s wonderful.” (via Marco)

Hmm, maybe we should try this method:

“I’ve given up on keeping Tupperware containers in space-saving arrangements with their lids stacked separately. The great Tupperware-bottom towers always collapse and fall out of the cabinet, and I can never find the right lid.

I’m willing to use the necessary amount of space to keep all of my Tupperware and Tupperware-like imitation containers closed with their proper lids and stacked normally all the time.

My 25-year-long frustration with the Tupperware cabinet has now ended, and it’s wonderful.”

(via Marco)

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