# The Women's Medical Fund has Renamed Itself

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**Created:** [November 15, 2021, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-womens-medical-fund-has-renamed-itself/954388 "2021-11-15T15:19:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-womens-medical-fund-has-renamed-itself/954388/176 "2021-11-18T22:01:15Z")

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> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> Maybe one Ze used zim and another used zer.

I don’t mean to belittle people using their chosen personal pronouns, but am I the only one for whom these particular ones trigger a mental picture of _Discworld_ vampires?

_“Zer darkness of ze mind’s eye!” \< thunderclap \>_

My brain makes weird connections, I guess.

> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> That’s basically what I meant when I said “figure out ways not to use pronouns at all.” Frankly I have enough trouble remembering names, remembering non-traditional pronouns is chancy at best. So I’m stuck with using “John” 6 times in 3 sentences.

It’s not as bad as that time I had to say that “Rafaella Gabriela and Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla and  
Albert Andreas Armadillo found an aardvark, a kangaroo and a rhinoceros, and now that aardvark and that kangaroo and that rhinoceros belong respectively to: Rafaella Gabriela Sarsaparilla, and Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, and Albert Andreas Armadillo”. Because saying all those nouns over and over can really wear you down.

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