Re: Kylie Jenner BA
in reply to a message by Jagoda
Stormy is not gender-neutral to me, and especially not that spelling she chose. Storm, maybe, but not Stormy.
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It’s an adjective, though, in a language where we don’t have gendered words.
This message was edited 2/6/2018, 2:21 PM
'i' is definitely a very gendered ending for names, though, culturally if not grammatically
I wouldn’t say “very” but I don’t disagree. I just think Stormi, Chicago, Saint, and North are all pretty gender neutral, not absolutely, completely gender neutral (although they kind of are).
the last three ...
Are "gender-neutral" in the same way table, laundry and sodium might be called gender-neutral: because they are not considered people's names by the vast majority of humans.
Are "gender-neutral" in the same way table, laundry and sodium might be called gender-neutral: because they are not considered people's names by the vast majority of humans.