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⌈ Secret Post #4065 ⌋

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[Grace and Frankie]

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[Gillian Anderson]

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[Actress Martha Higareda as Kristin Ortega in Altered Carbon]

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[Supernatural S01E09, "Home"]

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[FX's Legion]

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[Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey]

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08. https://i.imgur.com/846oK7X.png
[The Shape of Water; linked at OPs request, it's a dildo]

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singular they

i get that it's for a cause which is fine enough but HOLY SHIT is it clunky

It's not for a cause, well, not JUST for a cause. It's just how English works now when referring to a person whose gender we don't know or a hypothetical person of any gender.

"You said you invited a friend. Are they coming?"

"I'm just going to leave this extra water bottle here for whoever wants it. They can take it if they need it."

It's how people already talk. My problem is that the singular they is typically used in impersonal contexts like the above - i.e. to refer to someone you haven't met - so it feels a bit wrong to use it to refer to someone who is standing right there. Still, I think it's the best option because it's already in the language.

It's really not that clunky IME

some wonk once edited banksy's wikipedia article so that every reference to "he" or "him" was changed to "they", because "he was anonymous so nobody could confirm his gender and it was wrong to imply he was male", or some shit

the result was just agony to read

but was it agony because it was unclear or was it agony because you don't like singular they

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