“Innocent until proven guilty” just means the jury should only vote guilty if they think there’s no reasonable doubt about it. Literally no one else in the world but those twelve people is under any obligation to consider it. And if anyone wants to argue this, I’ll just ask: did you wait until Harvey Weinstein was…

Well, he’s been super supportive of JK Rowling this whole time. This is really just a lateral move.

Yep. That’s the one that hurts me here. I love Stephen Fry. This is disappointing to see from him.

He’s Australian. We have pretty good bullshit-o-meters for this sort of thing.

If you read the entire thread, you would notice that the person to whom I was responding based their argument on the fact that they were “instructed in elementary school” to use “he or she” rather than “they.” That is what I was referring back to. There’s no possible way that could be read as bullying.  But if you…

To be fair, it’s hard to fake a love of tacos. 

You seem to trying to argue the history of language while at the same time dragging down anyone with a liberal arts degree. Good luck with that. 

I don’t particularly like “they” as a singular pronoun. I’d rather English had its own gender-neutral pronoun, and at some point, back in the nineties, it kinda looked like “zhe” might happen. I think that would be more functional, but the idea seems to have lost popularity.

This isn’t proper English.

“Turns out this is just Yi’s MO”

Of course it is.  And literally no one was actually confused by this.

No one cares what you think. You’re irrelevant.

Got any sources for that?

Welcome! Your posts English is pretty good for someone who doesn’t speak it natively. Here’s a resource for you for next time: https://www.englishgratis.com/1/wikibooks/english/singularthey.htm

I presented it as a fact. I’m sorry you perceive facts as having gotten you.

What are you talking about? David Cross admitted to what Yi was saying

I don’t know what ‘worked’ might entail in that particular case, but Cross basically admitted to it. “Yeah I went up to her and pulled my eyes into slants and went ‘Ah so ching chong wing wah’ but I was doing that to make fun of the kind of person who would do something like that.”  Didn’t seem like it hampered his…

What would “working” on David Cross have looked like? Dude is an asshole and we know it. So in that sense it worked. And which “guy” are you referring to?  She didn’t even name him.

If you could record yourself talking, you’d notice yourself using “they” to refer to a single person probably multiple times a week, and in none of those circumstances would you be confused as to whether it was one person or multiple.  Also, if you “get” that “she” wants to be called they/them, then call “her”…

I’m sorry you can’t parse proper English because the anti-woke crowd broke your mind to how pronouns work.