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@sharutiaburaddofouren Tagging @apropos, because he's the only one I know who hates singular they even more than me.
But yeah, bloody hell, I fucking hate singular they, it's very clearly used for "Inclusivity" reasons (so already bad) and sounds absolutely retarded every single time. Guessing the sex of a person is always the superior choice, because singular they is the only choice that's guaranteed to be wrong (and individuals actually going by they/them pronouns are retarded fags and should never be validated). Defaulting to male as a rule is fine, as is doing basic profiling work - the dude you're playing online in a fighting game, or who made a Skyrim mod you're playing is overwhelmingly likely to be male, the person trying to Jew your sick parent out of disability payments is likely to be female. But again, the only choice that's *always* wrong is singular they.
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@ChristiJunior @sharutiaburaddofouren the older alternative was to default to "she" in some cases, or to declare the sexes of imaginary stand-ins. There are some technical programming books that state in the introduction that the editor is assumed male, the tech writer is assumed female, etc., and that there's nothing to these decisions other than to be 'inclusive' while being easy to read.
With "they they they they they they", none of these people care about text being easy to read anymore. They'll haphazardly mix plural and singular they in the same paragraph, and they'll repeat "they" more than anyone would use a pronoun to begin with, just to make sure you noticed it.
Christi Junior
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