On Feb 27, 6:35 am, Baird Stafford <ba...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <V5adnUuELaiMy1nanZ2dnUVZ_sOrn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Michael Gleason" <gleason.m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Although I, personally, am not a fan of the gender neutral pronoun
"hir" I
> > can understand its use in this case to offset the common
misperceptions
> > about dominance/submission in a kink setting. Every time I saw it, it
> > reminded me that all is not necessarily as my early cultural
conditioning
> > may have led me to expect. It kept me on my toes, and that was a good
> > thing.
>
> Yet "sie" and "hir" were the pronouns of choice on both asb and ap, back
> in the day. I recall a certain snow leopard who was *very* careful not
> to let hir *** be known nor guessed on the grounds that, since the
> Goddess Wor****ppers were so *very* feminist and others on ap were so
> *very* masculinist, the moment anyone found out what sie wore under hir
> tail, hir opinions would automatically be discounted by at least half
> the group. The argument made sense to me at the time.
>
> Of course, it made sense that Ounce was one of the hottest flamers
> around, too....
>
> <snip>
>
> Blessed be,
> Baird
Hir s.r.p. moderator bio said sie "consider[ed] gender irrelevant to
this forum". I recall I had a guess based on what I considered some
subtle nuances and unerring logic -- proven wrong of course, once I
had dinner with hir and hir partner... :)
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