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Larry M. David's avatar

I agree. I also believe that Trump and the Republicans won the 2024 elections in large part on anti woke fervor, wherein “woke” stopped being about acknowledging the lingering effects of slavery and Jim Crow and became the catch all term for LBGTQXYZ and the pronoun nonsense. “Woke” became just another derogatory term for the Left. Older voters, especially, were (are) creeped out by the use of plural pronouns to describe single individuals. It’s easy and natural to call it nuts.

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Mark Blum's avatar

I share your reluctance to use plural pronouns for a single person. My solution is if someone doesn’t want to be identified by a gender specific pronoun, then don’t use any pronoun. Just use their given name instead. And if they want to change their first name to something gender neutral (eg. Chris, Pat, etc.) that’s fine with me.

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