I've noticed that people of my generation or later will sometimes speak of a cis person of known gender as 'they' in casual conversation. Idk what that's about.
@Betty speaking purely for myself: gendered pronouns are hard to remember and sometimes my brain doesn’t pull them out in time for my mouth to say them.
(I’m fine at English, just bad at gender and speaking.)
@villainousfriend @Betty i am also bad at gender and speaking haha so i figure defaulting to they is better than defaulting to anything else
I also feel like the younger generations have pushed generic they (“someone left their phone”) into any situation where the persons individual identity is not relevant (“i was talking to a friend and they said” etc) which makes they-ing people by accident/without thinking a bit easier and therefore more common?
@Satsuma @villainousfriend a sort of "this person's gender is not relevant to this conversation and will not help disambiguate speakers, so I've dumped one bit of data"
@Satsuma @villainousfriend this is my feeling?