[lojban] Re: Gender neutrality?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

It hasn't come up.  Unless I need to talk about whether someone
actually has a penis or vagina, I use {remna}.  Or, you know, their
name.  :)  If it comes up in conversation for you, I suggest you
invent some lujvo.

-Robin

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 04:12:16PM -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> No, i mean words that instead of meaning that someone is a boy, it
> means that they are mentally a boy. Everyone is used to using
> words that describe what people are biologically, but we should be
> talking about gender identity unless we really do want to talk
> specifically about their biological sex. So, the terms that mean
> identify as male, female, genderqueer, etc, should always be
> preferred when talking about humans (or even bots/androids that
> are supposed to have a gender since they don't have a biological
> sex).
> 
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:00, Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > de'i li 20 pi'e 04 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Danny Piccirillo .fy. cusku zoi
> > skamyxatra.
> > > If there are terms for boy, man, girl, and woman, there are surely terms
> > for
> > > one who identifies as masculine or feminine, or androgynous, genderqueer,
> > etc
> > > and those are the terms i think should be preferred in common
> > conversation
> > > when talking about someone who has a gender identity (all humans).
> > .skamyxatra
> >
> > If you mean words that are suitable for individuals regardless of their
> > gender
> > identities, yes, there are words for those.  "Human" is "{remna}," and
> > "person"
> > (not necessarily human) is "{prenu}."  "Child" is "{verba}," "offspring" is
> > "{panzi}," "parent" is "{rirni}," "sibling" is "{tunba}," "uncle/aunt" is
> > "{famti}," et cetera.
> >
> > mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.
> >
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> >
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