Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140803191129/@comment-24219008-20140806031120

Shadow at Morning wrote: Hood: They is actually the preferred terminology, in my experience, among people for whom this is a Big Deal. Especially, since, rude as 68.116 was, there was a point buried in that mass of ad hominems; we've, deliberately or not, excluded the possibility of gender fluidity from our analysis, which at least bears consideration, and in which case they is most definitely the preferred pronoun (barring more extreme partisans who want to introduce a new pronoun(s) but cannot agree what it should be, and generally ignore that English has had one, with a long history, despite what prescriptivists tell you.). One of the shows I watch has an anonymous villains whose identity/gender are not known, and the show's producers/writers refer to the villain as "shim" or "s/he" so as not to give away any specific "clues" about the person's identity.... I think it's actually a clever pronoun.