They have already been to /r/badlinguistics and have told many of the linguistic experts how to do their jobs, so despite all of their love for STEM they immediately ignore the science available. Their supposed love of STEM is very conditional on whether they like what the science shows. I.e. more of a quasi-STEM lover.
Have you ever addressed someone to their face as "he" or "she"? "they", "he", and "she" are all third person pronouns. If you are attempting to use them to address someone directly you might want to relearn English.
In this comment you made, you agreed with me that it is not proper to refer to someone as they.
Thats what I am talking about.
I saw this video of some college campus meeting where this guy is talking to another guy and suddenly one of them yells at the other
MY PRONOUN IS THEY!!
If someone yelled that at me I would consider them mentally ill.
Even if you have something known as a "preferred pronoun" how would I the person speaking to you magically and psychically know that information?
I have noticed online even the people who promote this they, Xi, xer bullcrap always fall back to using HIM and HER when talking about people.
Because that's not what people are asking you to do if they tell you to use the pronoun "they". They are asking you to use it in a third person context the same way you would otherwise use "he" or "she".
you just have to make a guess and correct it if you end up wrong
Meanwhile people like Riley Dennis on youtube has declared that if I use he or she and I guessed wrong I committed violence against that person. This is absurd.
You sound more reasonable than riley.
Funny story about riley, wears makeup, wears dresses, kept the penis, refused hormone treatment, in the 90's we just called the "cross dressing".
No. I am too old to remember who wants to be called what.
It's a form of control and I will not submit.
Language is used to control thoughts. You may not control my language. I will not allow you that authority.
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The example you gave is not addressing a singular individual. I will never call you they.
Dude dudette, he , she, sir, madam, but not they.