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Hello! This is the No Gendered Pronouns Day nexus post - if you've written about how the day is going/ has gone for you, could you link your writings in comments? And if you've mentioned this on your LJ, could you ask people to come here and post their links? I think it will be interesting to see what the challenges are for people in different places, speaking different languages, living different lives...

As for me, I've slipped up a dozen times already, under close interrogation from my firstborn at 6.15am. Clearly, that's going to be my biggest challenge.

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I slipped up earlier whilst talking to myself and I'm wondering if that counts... Other than that sent a text to best friend containing 'he' and 'she' before I remembered.

I've been using 'it' over anything else, which is the main reason that my best friend is now not talking to me, as it thinks that I'm being rude to talk to people as if they were objects. I told it that it was being silly, and that I was simply dropping the gender, not making less of anyone, but as yet we have not reconciled.

I have noticed something strange though I wonder if anyone else is the same... I keep thinking of 'I' and 'you' and 'we', etc. as being gendered pronouns (especially 'I', probably because it's a 'personal' pronoun, so I assign my gender to it) and I keep wanting to use 'it' instead of 'I' or 'you'.

*shakes head*

It's weird, it's not something you'd usually think about, but I think I'd like to use 'it' for 'I' because I'd like to put me in with everything else and not have 'I' separate from 'it' or 'they'.

Anyway... I'm off to make my supper (cheese on toast) and reflect upon the day. I'm also planning on trying to keep this going for the whole week, as I haven't really been that challenged today, what with wednesday being my day off at college and work, and basically with me only speaking to people if I want to.