{"id":2333,"date":"2012-05-11T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:05:41","slug":"investigating-a-persons-sex-as-part-of-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/05\/11\/investigating-a-persons-sex-as-part-of-my-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating a person&#8217;s sex as part of my job!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the very awkward position today of trying to find out the sex of a coauthor of an article for which I was sending a revision letter. I wanted to include in the letter that the doctor needed to update their financial disclosure and wanted to give instructions on how to do so.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#39;t use third-person plural pronouns or &quot;his\/her&quot; because the company objects to those uses. In order to avoid really awkward phrasing, I wanted to find out this person&#39;s sex so I could use the correct pronouns, and the person&#39;s name was not giving me any clues.<\/p>\n<p>I eventually found information about the person&#39;s sex and completed the instructions with the correct pronouns. This situation highlighted for me the English language&#39;s need for a broadly accepted gender-neutral pronoun. Third-person plural pronouns are fine to me, if only conservative institutions would stop having grammatical fits about them.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, I mostly avoid the subject of people&#39;s sex in my job because pretty much everyone we deal with is a doctor, so we just address them by that title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the very awkward position today of trying to find out the sex of a coauthor of an article for which I was sending a revision letter. I wanted to include in the letter that the doctor needed to update their financial disclosure and wanted to give instructions on how to do so.&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/05\/11\/investigating-a-persons-sex-as-part-of-my-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Investigating a person&#8217;s sex as part of my job!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[692],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-heteronormativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5350,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}