@Valcazar: Reread your post quoted below very carefully:
If one did not know in advance which group or non-binary individual is referenced in your use of 'they/ them/their' pronouns, a valid interpretation of your post is that you are paraphrasing an infamous quote attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman:
Now, consider a common situation: someone is reading some, but not all of the posts in this thread, either scrolling past certain contributors, or reading the opening post(s), then returning to the current page.Oh, the preformative outrage at them is ridiculous.
I do think they have outlived most of their usefulness in their current form, though.
If one did not know in advance which group or non-binary individual is referenced in your use of 'they/ them/their' pronouns, a valid interpretation of your post is that you are paraphrasing an infamous quote attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman: