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   casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 01:48:41 JST casey is remote

   Woke people be the type of folk who look at a cup on the table and point to it and say "look at them"

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 02:13:43 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • The Feral Housewife

     @C

     Its not about misgendering, thats just proper english. They has been used as the gender-neutral singular pronoun since 1375 (first citation in a dictionary). Its literally just the correct term if your speaking english, nothing more. It is not considered proper when discussing animals, that is reserved for inanimate objects (like casey's cup example).

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     The Feral Housewife (c@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 02:13:44 JST The Feral Housewife

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     @realcaseyrollins haha. I have heard people use they for a squirrel on the sidewalk. Misgendering a squirrel would be terrible.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 08:14:09 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @C @realcaseyrollins

     They has plenty of history as a gender neutral si gular back to 1375. As for aninals im not sure when we used they but it obvohsly makes sense since they have sex and is proper engliah today at least.

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     The Feral Housewife (c@noauthority.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 08:14:10 JST The Feral Housewife

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     @freemo @realcaseyrollins is there historical documentation of people using “they” for animals at any time prior to the 21st century?

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 08:21:29 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @C @realcaseyrollins

     So just a quick search and i was able to find gendered language (he, she, they) used for animals back to 1914, there are probably older uses.