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TopicWhy do people pretend they don't understand singular they?
Anteaterking
02/24/24 12:25:46 PM
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People do the same thing with gendered languages (most commonly when the topic of latinx comes up) where they're fine incorporating all sorts of slang, ignore that grammatical gender is generally disconnected from sociological concepts of gender (e.g. the Russian word for "giraffe" is grammatically female but you still call a male giraffe by the same word), and accept all sorts of loan words that defy all rules of declension...

but the second it becomes about trans people, they're like "Sorry, I would respect trans people but I'm just too grammatically minded!"

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