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Timmyjinkle
10/09/22 5:18:06 PM
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I will be using "they/them" for historical figures from now on*... since we don't actually know what gender they identified as, we could be misgendering hundreds of these great historical figures.

Unless they have writing about themselves, we're never quite sure about their gender identity (since people writing about them could easily be misgendering them) and some languages don't even have genders when writing in first-person, adding to the confusion.

Therefore, from now on, I will be using "they/them" for all of them.

(*unless there's autobiographical work from them with clear gendered language about themselves)

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Blade_Trinity
10/09/22 5:25:39 PM
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spikethedevil
10/09/22 5:28:52 PM
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Disingenuous troll post from a 2amp account.

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gigageek1500
10/09/22 5:31:59 PM
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Have fun! Stay safe!

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Timmyjinkle
10/09/22 5:36:29 PM
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spikethedevil posted...
Disingenuous troll post from a 2amp account.

To everyone else, that's not the case, at all -- https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/07/25/archaeology-human-remains-gender-black-trowel-collective/

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