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To: where's_the_Outrage?

FTA: ... after a parent picked up their child .....

^^^^^^^^^^
This insanity has got to stop. The noun “parent” is used here in the singular, yet the idiot writer chooses to use the plural possessive pronoun “their” instead of “his” or “her.”


6 posted on 02/11/2023 9:57:20 AM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Bigg Red

The faddish use of any word to avoid saying “he, his or him” makes the article unintelligible.


9 posted on 02/11/2023 10:08:40 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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