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He shames me for being what I am without fear of loss, when he is what he is without hope of gain.”
“Please address me simply as Bander, if you must use a form of address. Do not address me by any word that includes a sign of gender. I am neither male nor female. I am whole.”
A non-binary character in a book written in 1986. Not bad, Professor A, after you've spent so long seeming painfully dated when it comes to issues like gender roles.
“Frankly,” said Trevize, “it’s annoying not to know the pronoun to use in connection with the creature. It impedes thought and conversation to hesitate forever at the pronoun.” “But that’s the fault of our language,” said Bliss, “and not of Fallom.
And then, sadly, they saddle Fallom with 'she' because they can't think of anything else, even though Fallom's father explicitly used 'it' for their people.
