Confession: I used to be anti-singular-they. I used to avoid it at all costs in my writing, trying to use other non-sexist wording like 'he or she', using a generic 'she' instead of 'he' and substituting gender-neutral neologisms, like ey or zie.

Nowadays, though, I am really, really tired of prescriptivists who fulminate against singular 'they ( Read more... )

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There’s been a lot of discussion about many forms of culturally sanctioned privilege, including white privilege, class-based privilege, male privilege, cisgender privilege, able-bodied privilege and heterosexual privilege. Unfortunately, there has been comparatively little discussion of the privilege that non-plural people experience, mostly ( Read more... )

You know, we are an extremely bizarre position when it comes to the discussion of Racial Topics, and we usually don't discuss it in depth, besides commenting on instances of racist behaviour. Our individual histories don't match the front body's, and for the most part, our ethnicities don't match the body's. (We're diverse, but we just haven't had ( Read more... )