• CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    I didn’t say anything you said.

    I think a more sensible way to include LGBT+ group is to just make “she/her” obsolete. We are all “he/him”, and we are “they/them” when in a group. Way cleaner than this, excuse me, shit that we foreign English speakers have to adjust to for every few years.

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      3 hours ago

      Mate, english is my second language too and this is not that confusing.

      Singular they/them has been here for hundreds of years and using it as a gender neutral alternative to she/her and he/him isnt shit, its part of the english language.

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      8 hours ago

      We agree. We make he/him obsolete and we’re all she/her, as there are more female people on the planet, so less people have to adapt

      • merde alors@sh.itjust.works
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        8 hours ago

        “he/him” probably isn’t he/him in their non-gendered language. In some languages there’s no he or she, there’s only a pronoun that means “that person”

        Armenian, Persian, Tagalog, Finnish, Georgian, Turkish, Swahili &c