Can Language Be Gender-Neutral?
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6 min readDec 7, 2021
Of all the cultural controversies that have stirred up Western intellectuals, politicians, and practically everyone else over the past few decades, perhaps none is so hot as gender. All debates over society and culture involve language to some extent, but those over gender present challenges that are unusually fundamental.
In English, by far the biggest is over whether the pronoun “they” can apply to a…