More Regendering

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Here is the satire upon which the racial pronoun scheme in Regender is based. This is a powerful, unsettling piece designed to shake us out of our comfort zone in order to get us to see something that we regard as quite commonplace in an entirely new light. It works.

A Person Paper on Purity in Language by William Satire (alias Douglas Hofstadter)

June 13, 2009 at 05:29 AM in genderpolitics | Permalink

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