[Obvious CW, this entire post is about human sexuality. Academic-ish terminology but yeah.] As I was writing “There is no gender in toki pona.“, I kept thinking about how what I was saying applied to discussions of sexuality. But I didn’t want to meander too far from my main point, and didn’t want to turn …
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toki pona, as an isolating language with no gendered pronouns, is grammatically gender-neutral. End of post. Okay but actually… This is an adaptation of “There is no gender in toki pona.“, with added glosses and footnotes and reduced code-switching, so as not to assume toki pona proficiency on the part of the reader. If you …
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toki pona, as an isolating language with no gendered pronouns, is grammatically gender-neutral. End of post. Okay but actually… [CW: Very brief references to sexuality; discussion of what gendered terms to use for people. This post assumes basic familiarity with toki pona. “There is no gender in toki pona. (non-tokiponist–friendly version)” also exists.] There are …
CWs: Transphobia; brief references to various maladaptive behaviors; brief, mostly clinical depiction of sex. Preface: Occasionally people ask me if I’m serious about this. There’s nothing I say here that I don’t believe per se. At the same time, part of the purpose of this post is to lampoon an incredibly stupid idea one cis …
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