<div dir="ltr">"It" refers to objects, not people, so pretending you have some grammatical high-ground here is ludicrous. <div><br></div><div>Not to mention, we use "they" singularly all the time in our language, and have since Shakespeare.  Since before Shakespeare.  Since <b>Chaucer.</b></div>
<div><b><br></b></div><div>Imagine that sentence without the dehumanizing "it": "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Male or female THEY should be gone."  Hardly going to destroy the English language.</span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Al Sweigart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asweigart@gmail.com" target="_blank">asweigart@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">No-hat aka Josh was out of town over the holidays, but before then Ive found him sleeping overnight at Noisebridge. He's been doing this a while.</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 15, 2014 9:43 PM, "Hannah Grimm" <<a href="mailto:dharlette@gmail.com" target="_blank">dharlette@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div dir="ltr">Can you NOT refer to people of unknown gender as "it?"  We already have a word for that which doesn't dehumanize people by comparing them to objects.  It's "they."</div><div class="gmail_extra">


<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Norman Bradley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pryankster@gmail.com" target="_blank">pryankster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



  
    
  
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    <div>N0_Hat is also spamming the wiki and
      should be GONE. Male or female IT should be gone.<br>
      <pre cols="72">You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are NOT entitled to your own facts.

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        <div>One in turing named sid.  Other was __Hat. Both claimed
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        <div> Nick was here but not sleeping.<br>
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