Woke people be the type of folk who look at a cup on the table and point to it and say "look at them"
@realcaseyrollins haha. I have heard people use they for a squirrel on the sidewalk. Misgendering a squirrel would be terrible.
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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).
@freemo @realcaseyrollins is there historical documentation of people using “they” for animals at any time prior to the 21st century?
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.
