Showing posts with label gender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Hisnia

 

It was a confusing conversation that spawned this comic. It is funny but also rather frustrating when people see the letters that make a pronoun in a word and change it to their preferred pronoun as if every instance of his/him/her/she in a word is a direct link to a pronoun. Also it took me a minute to remember the male form of her, like him? he? wait use it in a sentence "her bag" would be "his bag" ok I got it. 

Explanation: "Hernia" is a medical condition that also contains the letter group "her" which is a female pronoun. But I just realized "do you see her/him" works as well as "that is her/his bag" so really it could be a himnia. That sounds like a condition related to church songs (hymns). 

Text:
D: You have a hernia.
M: No, I'm a guy. It must be a hisnia. 

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Gender-Neutral Mail


We have a femaleman :) A mailwoman. A female postal worker who delivers our mail and this one time she came to our door because a letter was 23 cents short on postage so I gave her a quarter so I could get my letter. It was an invitation to a baby shower the previous week.
I appreciate all the effort that goes into the global mail system - it's pretty amazing that I can put a letter in my local mailbox with an international stamp on it and somehow it arrives at my sister-in-law's flat in Hong Kong. I don't know how it works but I'm glad it does.

Text:
M: Mailman!
F: I am a lady.
M: Oh, sorry, Femaleman!