LogFAQs > #960847216

I think something that has gone unsaid is that the popular way for bigots to respond to non-binary people for the last however long is to tell us 'they/them' is unacceptable because it is plural. The use of grammatical pedantry as a way to deny someone's identity is obviously going to get under certain people's skin, and in that position, an easy way to respond is to suggest a new pronoun that doesn't have the singular/plural 'confusion' of they/them. Obviously, those bigots are then going to attack those new pronouns, because they don't actually care about grammar or language but are using it as an excuse to deny the existence of genderqueer people.

As someone who uses they/them, it would be nice to have an alternative, societally agreed-upon singular pronoun - because the grammar stuff does actually bother me to a certain degree (as a writer, it can be a pain to double-check clarity that isn't required with he or she).

I'm still not the biggest fan of having an endless amount, but that's mainly because I view pronouns as being a big umbrella anyway. There's endless ways to be even a cisgender man or woman and I find pronouns to work best when they're simply denoting which particular umbrella someone falls under. A pronoun can only convey so much - but until we stop having a significant portion of the population telling us everything but he or she is incorrect, I'm not going to question someone finding comfort in their own unique expression.