Tech Lead/Team Lead. Senior WebDev.
Intermediate Grade on Computer Systems-
High Grade on Web Application Development-
MBA (+Marketing+HHRR).
Studied a bit of law, economics and design
Location
Spain
Education
Higher Level Education Certificate on Web Application Development
Either we assume that the gender is something subjective to any individual and subordinate the language to that subjectivity (thus you gotta use as many pronouns as people arbitrarily create), hence and ironically it couldn't even be considered as meaningful data in regards of PII (as it can change at any time), or we reject everything about segregating people by subjective gender "tags" and agree on considering each individual a "person", hence agreeing as well on sex/gender not being meaningful in our lives at all, while creating/using (depending on the language) a gender-neutral way of expression.
My point? Don't fix what isn't broken. If we are about to consider everybody equal we shouldn't be bothered about the language and accept happily that we are included in the statement, be it masculine or feminine. Any option outside of that is just a way to make people fight against each other and does either comply with the leftmost extremist policies (authoritarianism) or goes against them, polarising even more the society to the profit of few.
Tech Lead/Team Lead. Senior WebDev.
Intermediate Grade on Computer Systems-
High Grade on Web Application Development-
MBA (+Marketing+HHRR).
Studied a bit of law, economics and design
Location
Spain
Education
Higher Level Education Certificate on Web Application Development
Either we assume that the gender is something subjective to any individual and subordinate the language to that subjectivity (thus you gotta use as many pronouns as people arbitrarily create), hence and ironically it couldn't even be considered as meaningful data in regards of PII (as it can change at any time), or we reject everything about segregating people by subjective gender "tags" and agree on considering each individual a "person", hence agreeing as well on sex/gender not being meaningful in our lives at all, while creating/using (depending on the language) a gender-neutral way of expression.
My point? Don't fix what isn't broken. If we are about to consider everybody equal we shouldn't be bothered about the language and accept happily that we are included in the statement, be it masculine or feminine. Any option outside of that is just a way to make people fight against each other and does either comply with the leftmost extremist policies (authoritarianism) or goes against them, polarising even more the society to the profit of few.
'They' is also singular (at least in English) - has been since the 14th century - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Okay, but I'm not doing it a dozen times in a row, I'm usually doing it once ... I think I'll stick to "he or she" whenever the need arises.
Ty for the info John!
After cross reading the wikipedia entey, I'm still on the side of considering the "singular they" an error 😂
There are many situations I can think of it being prone to confusion:
they, would you mind picking the burgers? -> you need to ask explicitly how many people.