AP stylebook now allows
the "singular they" in some instances. I got excited over some semi-official
approval of a gender-neutral pronoun, but this is apparently only for cases
where the subject identifies with neither gender. That's all well and good, but
English still could use a gender-neutral pronoun for other cases, and I will
continue to use "they" or "them" for the purpose until we get one, even if its
technically incorrect. If anyone has a problem with that, they can come
and see me.
jdreyer wrote on Mar 25, 2017, 16:25: A gender neutral pronoun is a small step but an important one. I welcome our robotic gender neutral pronoun overlords. Oh, wait. Wrong meme.
On the other hand, then we can finally call everyone "it" how it should be...