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> They/them already exists and have centuries of use for that use-case. This is just gaslighting. People use "they" when they talk in the abstract. No one said
by xdennis 3y ago
> They/them already exists and have centuries of use for that use-case.
This is just gaslighting. People use "they" when they talk in the abstract. No one said sentences like "This is Tom. They is happy." until a few years ago.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> No one said sentences like “This is Tom. They is happy.” until a few years ago. No one still says that, because even when semantically singular, “they” remains grammatically plural.
- vidarh 3y agoApart from being grammatically wrong (it'd still be "they are"), this is entirely besides the point, which is that the people who object to (the corrected version of) this construction are just as likely to object to a neopronoun, and so there's little reason to assume a neopronoun will stop people from getting worked up over this even if you could get people to use them.