Timeline for What pronouns should I use for a character with no gender?
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| S May 5, 2021 at 0:38 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S May 5, 2021 at 0:38 | comment | added | linksassin♦ | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| May 2, 2021 at 1:33 | comment | added | user39582 | I'm nonbinary, I use they/them most of the time, and when people use he/him to refer to me, that's misgendering. | |
| May 1, 2021 at 16:54 | comment | added | kaya3 | If you really think "he" is gender neutral, then you would have no objection to the sentence "everyone at the party wore his best tie or swankiest dress", nor to the sentence "was it your brother or your sister who could hold his breath for 60 seconds?". I don't think any competent user of the English language would think either of these is correct; you would write "their", not "his". | |
| Apr 30, 2021 at 15:56 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | There are multiple different styles of English, and it's certainly not true that "he" is an unmarked pronoun in all of them. Laws are usually written in a style where "he" is used to refer to pretty much anyone. A lot of people use "he" only for people who are known to be male. And if thou thinkest that it's grammatically incorrect to use "they" to refer to a single person, since "they" is a plural pronoun, then I assume that thou also never usest "you" when speaking to a single person, since "you" is a plural pronoun, too. | |
| Apr 30, 2021 at 15:54 | comment | added | DM_with_secrets | ""he" is actually a so-called unmarked pronoun, in contrast to "she" which is female." But why would I want to respect some grammatical relic that treats male as default? Language evolves. | |
| Apr 30, 2021 at 15:31 | history | answered | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |