They/Them

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I remember as a kid the teachers were desperately trying to make “he or she” a thing and told us the singular “they” would never be acceptable.

I’m personally glad that movement failed.

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Always liked this one:

But this one is good too...

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If you're introducing yourself to me, I only need your name.

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looking back, some of my educators were monumentally stupid

OVERSHARING TIME

My body doesn't burp; when I drink something carbonated I have to physically gag myself with something to get the air out. When I was a kid I didn't know this and would get pain in my stomach and didn't understand why.

Coke with my lunch two days in a row resulted in trips to my home room teacher to ask to see the nurse, or go home. My home room teacher crossed her arms and said, "this is the second day in a row you've done this to us," and lectured me about trying to get out of class. I had no way of proving that I was actually in pain. I was angry and scared and couldn't do anything about it. Do not give me the keys to the time machine or there will be violence.

Skua

Roses are red
Violets are blue
The singular "they"
Pre-dates singular "you"

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Not complaining or calling it out but I’ve seen the words in the 2nd applied to sooo many different comics. I think that’s actually kind of great that it’s so flexible

Pistcow

Ok, hear me out, super supportive, but I had an issue when a friend's husband wanted me to use "their."

FuglyDuck

I had a math teacher that was there to coach football… instead of the normal method for balancing equations and such he’d insist you use his wonky play call diagrams.

Which made all the other algebra and trig teachers have re-teach kids coming out of his last class.

Dude was a stereotypical jock that was going to give one of his athletes a free pass for stuffing a friend of mine into a locker. At least until i stuffed the tight end in his locker, instead.

So. How about this. We swap the keys and go all strangers on a train?

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What issue? I fail to see how that impacts you negatively in any way.

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Thou shalt use proper pronouns and not be lazy recycling plural pronouns in the singular. What next, are thou planing to use a singular "we" like inbred royalty?

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I learned English at school and the first time I encountered singular they was when my teacher explained it to us. Sometimes non native speakers are less prescriptive than native speakers

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So you're not, in fact, "super supportive" at all then, are you, and are not, in fact, worth hearing out..

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Are you a horse ?

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In Finnish language there are no gender specific pronouns only gender neutral one hän/hänen.

They/them still sounds weird to use even if I know it can be used to refer single person. When talking or writing fast I'll still often accidentally default to using he/him even for females which I then have to correct.

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Don't use it then.

The only time you would ever need to use someone's pronouns is when they're not part of the conversation anyway.

I couldn't care less what people refer to me as if I'm not there.

Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod

I get irked when someone says “he or she,” especially repeatedly, because the singular “they” is so much easier to hear and read.

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The only time you would ever need to use someone’s pronouns is when they’re not part of the conversation anyway.

no? it would be weird to use in a one-on-one conversation, true. but it is fairly common to use the third person pronoun of someone during a group conversation, even while they are there

Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod

Youse guys should use the plural you

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I had this exact same problem growing up. When I started drinking excessive amounts of beer the pressure became enough to break through, and I finally started burping. That somehow fixed my body completely, and I've been able to burp normally ever since, but my God I'll never forget the pain of being unable to burp. Literally the worst pain of my life