• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Look, I know it’s sophistry, but so is the EO in the OP. But the fact of the matter is

        • I
        • you
        • it
        • we
        • they
        • me
        • you
        • us
        • them
        • this
        • that
        • these
        • those
        • such
        • mine
        • yours
        • ours
        • theirs
        • who
        • whom
        • whomever
        • whomsoever
        • what
        • whatever
        • which
        • whichever
        • whose
        • myself
        • yourself
        • self
        • itself
        • ourselves
        • yourselves
        • themselves
        • each other
        • one another
        • all
        • another
        • anybody
        • anyone
        • anything
        • both
        • each
        • either
        • everything
        • everybody
        • everyone
        • few
        • many
        • most
        • neither
        • nobody
        • none
        • no-one
        • nothing
        • several

        are all gender-neutral. Some of them can’t logically refer to gender, true, but that doesn’t make them start being gendered either.

        EDIT: ANNNND many of them do refer to an individual (I, me, you…)