[Noisebridge-discuss] 2 sleepers this morning

Hannah Grimm dharlette at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 06:35:53 UTC 2014


"It" refers to objects, not people, so pretending you have some grammatical
high-ground here is ludicrous.

Not to mention, we use "they" singularly all the time in our language, and
have since Shakespeare.  Since before Shakespeare.  Since *Chaucer.*

Imagine that sentence without the dehumanizing "it": "Male or female THEY
should be gone."  Hardly going to destroy the English language.


On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Al Sweigart <asweigart at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> On Feb 15, 2014 9:43 PM, "Hannah Grimm" <dharlette at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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."
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Norman Bradley <pryankster at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  N0_Hat is also spamming the wiki and should be GONE. Male or female IT
>>> should be gone.
>>>
>>> You are entitled to your own opinion.
>>> You are NOT entitled to your own facts.
>>>
>>> Norman
>>>
>>> On 2/15/2014 7:57 PM, Paul Monad wrote:
>>>
>>>  One in turing named sid.  Other was __Hat. Both claimed they were just
>>> napping.
>>>  Nick was here but not sleeping.
>>>
>>>
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