A lot of my students come from different (sometimes very different) cultures, so I try to answer their questions pretty neutrally, even when they're weird or not super appropriate. But today a student asked me, "What do you call it when you eat your child? You know, when you eat him." Uhhhh...
Me: "We don't eat 'him' and 'her', we eat 'it'. He eats food. She eats food."
Student: "No, I mean when I eat him. My child."
Me: "Food is an 'it'. You don't eat a 'him'."
Student: "But it's a child."
Me: "Uhhhh..."
Student: "Or an old person."
Anywho, turns out she wanted to talk about feeding her children. Yikes.
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