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Guy labeled “languages where everything is gendered” hovers menacingly, while a different guy labeled “non-binary people” runs away

  • bubbalu [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    The novel ‘sphinx’ by anne garreta plays around with this in a really interesting and beautiful way. It’s a romance novel where neither characters’ gender is explicitly stated. She gets around it by USING the gendered nature of nouns in french. So rather than say ‘he touched me’ she says 'A—‘s arm touched me’. It’s really fun to read and there’s a good english translation.