Pronoun

Your Pronouns: The Latest Craze on Campus” is an opinion piece by Jay Nordlinger written for National Review, which is a conservative political magazine. Nordlinger is a self-identified conservative faculty member at a private university, and his article rejects both feminist and queer theory language tenants. Overal, he criticizes the use of gender-neural pronouns calling the practice overly prescriptive and a craze. He begins the piece by telling a story in which he only used the pronoun…

Clichés are phrases and words which have been used so frequently that they’re powerful or no longer really interesting. They may have started out as a colorful, imaginative phrase, enjoy as sick as a parrot, but they’ve been picked up and used indiscriminately and broadly that they’ve lost their impact and become cold. Clichés are part of our regular language – we regularly don’t understand that we’re using them. Additionally, they appear particularly often in specific kinds of writing…

"In Defense of Gender", written by Cyra McFadden describes—in a satirical fashion—the nonsensical, all too often ubiquitous neutering of the English language across the country, both spoken and written. McFadden brings to light the issues that arise, as oppose to lessen, when gender-specific components are removed. I found myself in agreement with the author on many, if not all, of the points addressed within the article. To disassemble the English language—both written and spoken—and then…

A 2011 article by Nancy Bombaci addresses the possibility the famous author, Gertrude Stein, having autism. Bombaci states that Stein is often referred to as a “loose cannon,” and claims that many of her writings occur in a style which matches the speech pattern of those with autism. Whether or not Stein actually has autism, however, it not stated. Autism typically causes extremely specific character traits, being hyper-attention and intelligence. Though autism has different effects on…

What does the bulletin board in the hallway, the right side of your computer screen, and the I- 60 have in common? You may be thinking that there is no relationship between the three things, but it’s so obvious and so prevalent that you become so used to it that it only affects your subconscious. All three are locations and mediums for advertisement. We live in a world cluttered with an overwhelming amount of advertisements for marketing. Marketing techniques and strategies can even effect…

Lego Visual Analysis All children love to play with good toys, and Lego company has always been one of the best representatives of the toy market. At the same time, there is a recent alarming tendency to produce toys that are aimed to support specific gender stereotypes. Analyzing the way advertising of Lego toys changed from 1980s to modern day, it is possible to trace the path of stereotyping in regards to gender. The audience can see how Lego advertisements have regressed from using…

I recently attended A Christmas Wonderland, a drag show made up of some of RuPaul’s most talent drag queens such as; Roxxxy Andrews, Kim Chi, Latrice Royale, Naomi Smalls and many others. This was unlike any drag show I had been to before because instead of being in a small bar with limited seating and dingy lighting, it was in a real performance hall where the Nutcracker was being performed the following week. The first thing I immediately noticed was just how many different kinds of people…

started to alter pronouns when addressing people who are transgender, who are transitioning, or who don’t identify as a specific gender. They have started using different pronouns to avoid using the wrong pronoun and not come off as being disrespectful. Society has begun replacing feminine and masculine pronouns with gender-neutral…

vague pronouns. First, I placed a comma in front of “because;” “because” is a subordinating conjunction, meaning it joins two independent clauses in order to form a complex sentence. The sentence that I wrote contains an independent clause and a subordinating clause. Since the subordinating clause is at the end, a comma is not needed in front of because. Additionally, I overused vague pronouns throughout my entire essay. Now, as I look back on the essay I wrote, I realize that I used pronouns…

to them. Gender neutral pronouns, which provide a safe and welcoming environment for everyone, should be used according to what each individual person requests, but they should not become the law. Freedom of speech should still be protected. Gender neutral pronouns allow for people to feel safe and protected in an environment. They help the person to feel respected, and valued by others around them. Nonetheless, there should not be a law that requires the gender pronouns a person requests to…