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Maoist Internationalist Movement

Gendered pronouns

MIM hereby extends its policy on anti-patriarchal language (including such spellings as "womyn," "wimmin," "persyn," and "humyn") to cover the use of gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns. Henceforth feminine pronouns will be used for persyns of unknown sex who are friends of the international proletariat and masculine pronouns will be used for enemies of unknown sex.

Examples:

"From each according to her abilities, to each according to her needs."

"A true comrade devotes her life to serving the people."

"The enemy will not perish of himself."

"A labor aristocrat derives much of his income from superprofits."

This rule applies only to the otherwise ambiguous cases when sex is not stated. Accordingly, George Bu$h is still "he" and Madeleine Albright is "she," although both are enemies. All MCs, HCs, and others close to MIM are "she" at this time, since their real sex cannot be revealed, for security reasons.

Traditional patriarchal grammar maintains that "he" is the only correct "gender-neutral" pronoun in all of the examples above. MIM's realignment of the pronouns along the lines of "Who are our friends? Who are our enemies?" is more egalitarian and corresponds fairly well to the facts at this point in history.