Hartocollis Pop Culture

The grammar article from the New York Times that I chose to write a digital report on is called He, She, They, and Us written by Anemona Hartocollis, “who is a higher education reporter for the Times”. Hartocollis informs the reader about a grammar related issue with the “preferred pronouns”, which is the central focus of her article. This “preferred pronoun” is to be applied as a term to the identity of a former “he” or “she”. Hartocollis is a national correspondent for the New York Times. She and other reporters were perplexed as to what would be the correct term to use when writing about non-binary persons’ identity. Hartocollis mentions how Grammar conventions shift quickly, and takes notice to the pronouns that have been produced since …show more content…
Pop-culture relevancy was revealed in an article with Refinery 29. This article was written by Carolyn L. Todd titled, Meet Billions’ Asia Kate Dillon, T.V’s First Non-Binary Star on Showtime’s network. This is the only non-binary mainstream character who is played by Asia Kate Dillon. Asia wanted all the feminine pronouns removed from any media or press release and materials. Dillon admits that after doing the research into non-binary, they then realizes that this is what they would rather identify with. The gesture is added to the lines as “Taylor” (the character) introduce themselves, and the writers added, “My pronouns are they, them, theirs, and them” as Dillon’s character firmly recites and reiterates. Asia re-enforces the acknowledgement of their, the “preferred pronoun”—even while acting. It is also important and relevant to this community of people because it creates a community that they can identify with, and it also conditions the audiences, readers, and listeners to remember the ‘breaking ground” with transgenderism (whose was archaically known as trans-sexual). Moreover, it informs both television audiences, as well as mainstream media of their preferred