User blog comment:Mathias Custos/Fandom unite/@comment-25555436-20150729010014/@comment-24891101-20150729222130

Exactly my point, Chishio.

Of course, such intelligent entities one might refer to as it don't exist, as far as we understand. Things to which the concept of human gender identity is inapplicable would be referred to as it. This means that animals can be (and indeed are) referred to as it, because they don't have gender identity in the way humans do, merely sex (or, if they do, they have no means of objecting, or indeed awareness of such things, being non-sapient). And inhuman god of some form in fantasy literature, for instance, might be called it, since it is insufficiently anthropomorphized, or to emphasize its alien nature.