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"xe" has occasionally been used as a gender-neutral pronoun. Possibly at some point GQ changed their style guide with regards to it, and some (presumably well-m
by skykooler 7y ago
"xe" has occasionally been used as a gender-neutral pronoun. Possibly at some point GQ changed their style guide with regards to it, and some (presumably well-meaning) editor used a malformed search and replace on it.
- zerocrates 7y agoThis makes some sort of sense but then wouldn't we be seeing "etheyrtion" instead of "ertion"? Even assuming a find/replace properly targeted the word "xe" we don't have any "replace" happening, which doesn't really track.