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As a bit of a silly aside, I go back-and-forth on gender pronouns for Weed. Sometimes, I use "it" and sometimes I use "he". This is partly because I feel that Weed is too much of a person (and not an object) to be an "it" and yet, not actually a "he" (I think vegepymies are gender neutral? Though maybe not, it's not like plants don't have multiple genders). Of course, the age-old problem of English not having a gender neutral singular pronoun. I could use "they" of course, it's getting quite popular, but my brain still thinks that it's plural, even though it's meaning is shifting to include singular (as words do).
 


Not sure this is silly at all. I used he most of the time for Imogen, i think, but my head often says it, and I correct it.
Yeah, you're not wrong to use "he" exactly - if we go back I think we'll find that I usually did it too.

I don't think gender pronouns are silly for actual real world people who are struggling with it, either in their own lives or for how they deal with others, but it's relatively silly when talking about a totally fantasy plant-person.

But it is interesting, at least to me, otherwise I wouldn't have brought it up!
 







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