Gender neutral.

A lot of people pop this question at me, almost all the time...  so I thought I would quickly address it in this post. Most often, I use the terms, "significant other," "partner," and "special someone." There's a reason for it. As most of you know, I am a feminist at heart and if you follow my Facebook posts, you would know that I invincibly support LGBTQs. For those of you who don't know what that stands for, it's "Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transsexuals and Queers."

One of the major things I learned in my Women Studies or Sociology classes is about the exclusion of these sexual categories in our society. I can go on about the "male" and the "female" and the nonacceptance of whatever comes in between. But that's not the point of the post. Hence, I am gonna stick to strictly the answer of the question. The answer is in the title above. I use those terms to be gender neutral. If I am sitting in a circle of friends and someone identifies to a sexual category other than heterosexual, the least you can do to make them comfortable is to use those terms, to avoid the traditional use of "he" or "she" OR "boyfriend" or "girlfriend." 

I don't believe in summing up everything in such a narrow classification, that only guarantees inclusion of two sexes. There's FIVE sexes. If interested to read more about it, google "The Five Sexes Re-visited" by Anne-Fausto Sterling, if I am not wrong.

Peace. And equality.