• 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…)