gender issues
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<taps mic slightly nervously> Well, erm, hello. It’s been a while. Yes, I know pretty much every post on this blog has begun with some sort of variation on that theme for the past several years, but this one is a bit different. Trust me. Though, heaven knows, I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t.
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I’ve been thinking about the way that I and other writers use the pronoun you in poems and realising how strong an antipathy I have to its being used to stand in for the first person. I’m not talking about the colloquial use of you as a replacement for the often bothersomely formal impersonal pronoun
Amy Jo Philip 