Originally Posted by WhateverDude

I think the concept is that a gender-neutral term term is needed for people who don't like "she" or "he", and "they" has become that term. Words change meanings over time, you know. That's how language works.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.