{"id":53632,"date":"2016-03-08T21:44:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/independent_introducing_mx_the_gender_neutral_word_replacing_mrmrs\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T21:44:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:44:53","slug":"independent_introducing_mx_the_gender_neutral_word_replacing_mrmrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53632","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) Introducing &#34;Mx&#34; the gender neutral word replacing &#39;Mr&#39;+&#39;Mrs&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That there&#8217;s no gender neutral singular pronouns in English makes it difficult to convey the complexities of identity as we understand it in 2015. But a new entry on Dictionary.com is proving that language &#8211; like attitudes &#8211; does evolve.<\/p>\n<p>The honorific Mx has been kicking around since the 1970s, but has seen a resurgence of late, which is reflected by its entry into the online dictionary on Tuesday. According to Time, the &#8216;M&#8217; comes from the traditional prefixes &#8216;Mr&#8217; or &#8216;Miss&#8217;, and the &#8216;x&#8217; signifies an unknown entity, the same way it does in algebra.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re cis, genderfluid, agender, bigender or you just don&#8217;t particularly feel the need to proclaim your gender to everyone, Mx fits the bill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indy100.independent.co.uk\/article\/there-is-a-gender-neutral-word-that-could-replace-mr-and-mrs--WkcKXR4ftl\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That there&#8217;s no gender neutral singular pronouns in English makes it difficult to convey the complexities of identity as we understand it in 2015. But a new entry on Dictionary.com is proving that language &#8211; like attitudes &#8211; does evolve.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53632\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,168,104,133,125,151,129,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-men","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}