Welcome to Friskbiskit Flashbacks. The other day I had occasion to searching through my archives for a post that had some relevant information to a question raised by a friend and I realized, "Hey, you know, there's a lot of cool stuff back here that I've forgotten all about but that's still really relevant. Why not repost some of these." And so, Friskbiskit Flashbacks was born. Here's the first one, from June of 2009.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if men and women switched places? What if we used gender neutral pronouns, or if we identified races the same way we do gender? As Regender creator Ka-Ping Yee notes, language has power, and to show us how our language impacts our world in ways we forget to see, he's created a nifty little webtool that will translate anything on the web for you.
The basic setting swaps male pronouns, nouns and proper names for female ones, and vice versa. And once you're browsing with it (or you can check out the gender-swapped bible, if you want), you'll find a little bar in the upper right corner where you can switch whatever you're looking at to no less than three different genderless pronoun strategies, plus two other settings that do things with race and gender that I haven't even been able to get my head around yet. Go and play with this. It's fascinating.
Creator Ka-Ping Yee says he wants to save the world and have fun doing it. Way to go, Ka-Ping!
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