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Old 08-24-2018, 02:04 PM   #47362
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk View Post
But we have a perfectly good word in the language for someone that is not a he or she and I'm happy to call you "it", but using "they" in an improper context is offensive to me so I'm not going to use it. So it's either it or she, but I'm not going to call you they.
How about 'e? 'e went for a walk and 'e got the mail?

I worked with a woman with a gender-neutral name that you really couldn't tell was female until you were around her for a day or two and picked up on things. You could always tell who was struggling to figure it out because they would avoid all references to "he" or "she".
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