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[sythyry]

In the last poll, people seemed about evenly split between calling Sythyry male and calling zir female. Which is pretty cool for me, actually.

Still, if you put zir in a human gender stereotype, why?

Here are some features. I'm probably missing some, so I'll post another quiz at some point if I need to.

All these questions are asking, "I think that Sythyry's [feature] inclines me towards considering zir male / [feature is] irrelevant / female". Insofar as one ever knows why one makes mistakes, of course.

[Poll #1578124]

Comments

[bloofox.livejournal.com]

'zie' sounds more like 'she' than it does 'he'.

And 'zie' sounds a LOT like 'sie' which is 'she' in German.

Also I just have a tendency to think of neuter as female, but I think that's a result of markedness.

Male is 'unmarked'.

Female is 'marked'. Neuter is definitely 'marked'. Since the binary gender divide is so ingrained, wanting to slide neuter or other similarly non-standardly gendered people into one or the other is likely. Since non-standard is 'marked' they'd fall into female, the marked category in the binary gender system.

(At least that's how I'd analyse my own tendencies in that area.)