Executive order bans gender-neutral language in Arkansas government documents - Fayetteville Flyer
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Gov. Sanders cites an example from a Department of Health memo and claims other uses of what she calls “nonsense terms” have been reported to her office.
    • diprount_tomato@lemmy.world
      24·
      1 year ago

      First, that’s not the Bible. Second, “we” is not “gender-neutral”, it’s just the standard 1st person plural

          • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            1 year ago

            Look, I know it’s sophistry, but so is the EO in the OP. But the fact of the matter is

            • I
            • you
            • it
            • we
            • they
            • me
            • you
            • us
            • them
            • this
            • that
            • these
            • those
            • such
            • mine
            • yours
            • ours
            • theirs
            • who
            • whom
            • whomever
            • whomsoever
            • what
            • whatever
            • which
            • whichever
            • whose
            • myself
            • yourself
            • self
            • itself
            • ourselves
            • yourselves
            • themselves
            • each other
            • one another
            • all
            • another
            • anybody
            • anyone
            • anything
            • both
            • each
            • either
            • everything
            • everybody
            • everyone
            • few
            • many
            • most
            • neither
            • nobody
            • none
            • no-one
            • nothing
            • several

            are all gender-neutral. Some of them can’t logically refer to gender, true, but that doesn’t make them start being gendered either.

            EDIT: ANNNND many of them do refer to an individual (I, me, you…)