I frequently use the gender-neutral pronoun “hu” on this blog, and in regular speech and correspondence. The word’s creator is an old friend of mine and (in all its simplicity) I set up hupronoun.org for him. Periodically I scan the site’s web logs to look at the volume of traffic, and see what search strings people use to find the site. One unfortunate (but hilarious) discovery I made is that people find the site because they search on “pron” instead of “porn”. In some cases it might actually be an innocent typo, but “pron” (“pr0n”, actually) is Leetspeak for “pornography”, and was conceived to circumvent content filters (previously).
FTW, here are some of my recent favorite search strings from hupronoun.org:
- female pron
- gymnastics pron
- beautiful pron
- to young for pron
- flexible pron
- folk pron
- older women pron
- pron jobs for male
I scan my own web logs, too, because I find it fascinating to learn how people found me, and to speculate on what they actually were looking for. It’s also interesting to view in aggregate the span of subject matter I’ve covered over the years. Some of my favorite search strings from the last year:
- perfect shower temperature
- sociopath carnegie win friends and influence people
- how to handle post-consumption tampons
- cloaca (a surprising number of hits)
- ibonkedmymom
- how much does a 150-pound person weigh under the metric system
- midget porn
Happy memories all.