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I remember learning about Spivak pronouns from (I believe) reddit some time in the late 00s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun https://en.wikipedia.o
by buu700 5y ago
I remember learning about Spivak pronouns from (I believe) reddit some time in the late 00s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun
As far as I'm aware, the motivation behind this had nothing to do with social justice for trans people, but more as a potential alternative to the awkward/ambiguous singular they. (Or at least that's how I would've interpreted it back then, having been a teenager with no real concept of or experience with LGBT issues.)
- jefftk 5y ago> a potential alternative to the awkward/ambiguous singular they Spivak pronouns go back a very long way, though they were most popularized in the early '80s by Spivak using them in technical documentation. The popularity of singular they as a general purpose pronoun is much more recent.