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Holy crap what a shit article, btw...

> As a solution some feminists in Sweden have proposed to add a third class of gender-neutral pronouns for people.

Uh, no, we borrowed it straight up from our neighbours in Finland, because Finnish doesn't have gendered third-person pronouns!

As an added bonus, "hen" slots in perfectly among the other two pronouns (han/hon), it follows broad vowel rules for gender, and it's perfectly understandable even if you've never seen the word used before.




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