>uses "their" to refer to a single generic person

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>when she uses the en dash properly and she still succing

>>10026815
Yeah, surprisingly, most people don't see a point in being intentionally rude for no reason.

Shocker.

>>10026815
Wouldn't it be "they," since we're referring to the person and not an object possessed by that single generic person of unspecified gender?

>>10026828
please focus this thread is about the singular "they/their" and its usage sophistry is not encouraged

>>10026815
I use 'he' and 'his' to refer to all unspecified persons. Debate me.

>>10026842
I use he and his to refer to all unspecified anons. It's okay.

How would that work?
My neighbor and their dog?

>>10026991
Usually happens in essays and manuals and the like:
>But Emerson's model scholar is not satisfied to study books alone. They treat those books as a launching point for the formation of their own unique ideas, as fertilizer for the soil of their own genius.

>>10026815
Either intentionally make the gender vague for artistic reasons, or for triggering. Where ever they go, there they're.

>>10026842
I use she and her to refer to all unspecified persons. All of womankind should do it

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>>10026842
>"he or she"

>>10027208
This is fair enough. If all male writers used 'he', and all female 'she'. Then all would be fine with the world... given no inherent sexual bias in publishing, of course...

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>>10027224
>he/she
>(s)he
>s/he

>>10027228
>given no inherent sexual bias in publishing, of course..
Nice victim complex there, buddy! You're a celtics fan?

>>10027228
No, by womankind I mean all of humanity

>>10027257
No idea what a 'celtics' is, friend.

My point reiterated: If male writers all used 'he', and all female writers 'she', then there would be no problem. Except perhaps that there are, overall in the world, probably more published male writers than female.

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>>10027247

>>10027228
What about when the author's identity is secret

>>10027257
Is that a Bird is the word reference? Bird,bird, bird, bird is the word?

>>10027287
They can pick what they like; they'd be in a small minority.

>>10027295
You just used the singular they

>>10027287
(s)/hemst'd've

>>10027295
That sentence is not implicitly singular. 'They' being 'those writers who wish to be anonymous'.

>>10026815
I like the singular form of "they". It gives English more grammatical diversity and allows politeness without awkward and tedious shit like "he or she" (which occasionally spawns pointless debates over the order of either pronouns implying importance). Hell, I even consider myself a moderate feminist (get mad, robots) and while I mostly try to respect people's feelings about gender, pronouns like "pe" or "xir" sound pretty stupid because they have no real precedent in English, so they're just never going to catch on.

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>prof uses "she" and "her" for all his examples

>>10026815
Did you just assume my gender, shitlord!?
I'll have zxyou know, that's like really not okay.

>>10027377
RPG manuals were bad at this for a while. I get not wanting to exclude women, but the inverse is still misguided.

>20 year old woman who dresses like a woman, is interested in stereotypically feminine pursuits, claims to be bisexual - yet has only ever dated men - demands that she be referred to as "They/them"
hm

>>10027265
kek

>>10027287
Xir

>>10027454
>dresses like a woman
This is arbitrary anyway. Greeks and Scots basically wore skirts.

>stereotypicalky feminine pursuits
A distinction becoming less relevant by the decade.

>claims to be bisexual but has only dated men
Should we suspect all heterosexual virgins of secretly being asexuals, then? Not many people really have a diverse history of partners by age 20, and straight men are statistically far more numerous than lesbians.

People like this, who cynically critique anything different about young women, are usually losers obsessed with the concept of authenticity and outrage culture, finding it hard to believe that women have individual preferences beyond superficial interests to impress men. It's the attitude that leads to terms like "attention whore" and "special snowflake" - as if wanting acceptance and attention are bad things rather than inherent desires that most people have, or implying that humans aren't genuinely unique on an individual level and literally shaming them into conformity.

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>{sh, v, ·, x, z, zh, h}e / ey / hu / pe{r, h} / thon / yo

>>10027615
>wanting attention is not a bad thing
>humans are genuinely unique on an individual level
I wonder who (female) is behind this post

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Maybe it's a shemale.

>>10027988
Yes, of course, everyone who disagrees with you is some type of person you dislike, which conveniently makes them wrong. I'm a man, not that you'd believe it anyway. Even if you did, you'd just dismiss it with a caricature of male feminists.

People are unique. There are no two humans with exactly the same genetics, phenotype, personality, beliefs and experience. Much of far right wing politics is devoted to overly generalizing and brushing away these innumerable differences in order to reduce people to oversimplified stereotypes and justify mistreatment. People are just the cells in the organism of the nation, minorities are parasites and beasts, women are breeding machines and trophies for men to have, and so on. More or less, these attitudes correlate with ridiculing any mention of emotional pain, and indifference or the promotion of cruelty.

>>10028031
>I'm a man
suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure honey

>>10027208
LONDON

>>10028057
There aren't any women on the internet.

>>10028057
I swear, you can always tell if a writer is a man or woman from the very first sentence.

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>always use preferred pronouns because I'm not a piece of shit and there's no point in complicating other people's lives even more

>>10027615
>Greeks and Scots basically wore skirts
They were masculine skirts, just like there are feminine penises.

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>hän

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>>10028380
>always use biological pronouns and when provoked claim I'm speaking a slightly different language which is exactly like English except pronouns are sex-based, not gender-based, and please check your native speaker privilege shitlord

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>tfw don't use pronouns at all