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While it stands out to me (for different reasons than you think), it doesn't evoke a message of awareness. I see "fixing" one issue by creating another as worse

by rplnt 9y ago

While it stands out to me (for different reasons than you think), it doesn't evoke a message of awareness. I see "fixing" one issue by creating another as worse than doing nothing. Especially since there's a clear way how to solve it. And "they" is such a great concept in my opinion. Along with having neutral position name, there's no bias towards one gender. That is not possible in my native language, there would be different word for male and female occupations (think actor/actress, but for virtually everything).

uoaei 9y ago
Pray tell, how is this causing a problem? One could reverse the gender of the pronouns in TFA and your argument still holds. In a perfect world, everyone would use "they." Some people consider it necessary to respond to the prevalent usage of gendered pronouns to reverse the gender in common usage for the purpose of inciting conversations exactly like this one. IMO it's working to bring gender assumptions from a subconscious to a conscious phenomenon, which is the biggest step toward dissolving the underlying assumptions.