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The Psychology Podcast

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How Do You Respond to That?

i'm old enough to remember the da days when those of us who were feminists were trying to change the habit of using he as the standard singular pronoun. We know that psychologically it makes a difference to people to be offered she or he and to be offered chair, as supposed to chair man. So i think he's being really silly when he thinks language doesn't evolve guage,. in fact, has always evolved to shift with culture. It's why we don't speak shakespearian english, right? We don't speak old english. Because english evolved, and english will continue to evolve. And humans evolved, but cul s evolve too.

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