Interesting pronouns fact (2 Viewers)

[Ahsoka]

Did you know that in the 1700’s-1900’s (sometimes even modern day), there was a push to only use masculine third person (he, him, his, ect) as a generic singular pronoun, rather than singular they and other variations? Meaning that in cases where a gender of a singular person is unclear, masculine 3rd person is used. Now, if we apply this logic, we would get the following sentence: “A human, like all mammals, nurses his young.”

Yeah sorry, I’ll take singular they over that any day. You can’t pretend that reading about someone nursing his young doesn’t sound a bit unusual at first read Technically possible, but especially when people protest singular they because they’re transphobic, I don’t think that that’s exactly what end result they’re thinking when they complain about singular they

 

[Harmony_Starz]

that sounds strange