Proposal: E’s Are Bad
Cannot be enacted without CoV (2-13)
Failed by Hix
Adminned at 09 Feb 2007 13:52:53 UTC
Remove “Spivak pronouns, as defined in the Glossary, shall be used whenever an Actor is referred to.” from Rule 1.1.
Repeal Glossary section 3.5 (Spivak).
Replace all Spivak with appropriate instances of the singular “they”, throughout the ruleset.
Add a new Rule, “Spivak Cleanup” (so that later proposals don’t have to worry about whether to use Spivak):-
Spivak usage shall be adjusted into the singular form of “they”, whenever a proposal passes that contains Spivak. Any admin may repeal this rule at any time.
If we must get rid of the Spivak, at least let’s not change it to “they”. It may have a an accepted history of usage, but for a Nomic, there is potential for ambiguity: “they” is a plural pronoun. How about just switching to gendered pronouns such as “he” or “she” (note I am not suggesting we use the cumbersome “he or she”), with a note in the Glossary explaining that the choice of which gender is used in a pronoun is irrelevant unless otherwise specified?
snowballinhell7001:
Hurrah. My recent gender-neutrality crusade has spurred action.