Last night I went up to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with Peterson to hear a workshop by the author S. Bear Bergman “Butch Is A Noun”. The workshop was on the use of gender in writing, time was short so too much wasn’t covered in the workshop. Ze had us write a paragraph using a gender neutral name like Chris or Terri and in the place of the pronouns him/her and he/she use, hir for him or her and ze for he or she. We then had to guess. Part of what one of the students wrote: “ze met hir friend at the ice cream shop” and there was a discussion on what gender could you infer from that and why.
For the length of time that ze had, I think ze got hir point across rather well.
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