[Pollster1]

“It” works very well, e.g. - “Now what the hell is IT doing now?” or “Why is IT trying on that dress?” That’s what they want, right?

Not quite. A statistician who used to work for me got called in by HR, his immediate manager, and the top manager at his location for counseling. The complaint was that he had repeatedly refused to use "they" when referring to a mentally ill coworker. He used "he" because the coworker was a man, then "it" because he was told referring to a man as "he" was very nearly a hate crime. What "they" want is for us to join them in whatever delusions "they" are suffering under.

The only answer at this time is to ignore them and pray for them.

[QBFimi]

>> I posted: “It” works very well, e.g. - “Now what the hell is IT doing now?” or “Why is IT trying on that dress?”

When I suggested using “It”, notice I used insulting examples. This comes from a friend’s mom (a child of French immigrant parents), who used the term for those she disliked in the same manner. Mrs. B. died several years ago at 100+ years, sharp as a tack, admired, loved, opinionated, and gut-bustingly funny until the end.

Mrs. B would also call “It” a “Thing”, e.g. - “That THING has no idea at all how silly IT looks”. i

[texas booster]

First time I have seen this chart, but it begs the question:

How does anyone get the pronunciations right, especially with regional dialects and non-English speakers?

How would we know which preference they had for pronouns?

[bk1000]

Regarding the ignorance of that chart: they still want to use different pronouns for man and woman, they just don’t want them to be he and she?

[NetAddicted]

The first one looks like fairies.