• 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…)