They as a Singular neutral pronoun: Please help me
So as some of you know i only have one class this semester and its Public Speaking. Im gonna get right to the point.
Someone talking (during the lecture) with the teacher said “I wish we had a gender neutral pronoun we could use” and I spoke up and said “They functions as a gender neutral pronoun.”
Now the TEACHER fought me on this, and told me that I was wrong and that it was grammatically incorrect because it is a plural word. I wasnt given much time to interject or argue so all I could get out was “Language changes over time” and he took that and spun it around on me in an attempt to humiliate me by making me look like I was completely incorrect in front of my classmates. And then not only did he do that, later when someone was giving their minor speech (topic was pet peeves) on people misspelling words, the teacher brought it up AGAIN by saying very loudly and directed towards me “BUT LANGUAGE IS CHANGING, RIGHT?”
And he’s a very charismatic fellow, definitely someone to learn from when it comes to public speaking because the way he talks he makes you WANT to agree with him.
SO THATS WHERE YOU GUYS COME IN
I have to give an informative speech and two persuasive speeches in this class. I can handle the formation of the speech itself but I want to throw this all back in his face in a way he cant interrupt me on so I can get all the information out there.
I will have to answer questions once the speech is completed, from the audience (my class) and the teacher as well so I need all the argument points and ways to defend it as you could all possibly think of.
I don’t want to let this go, and I dont care if he tries to grade me down because I went against him on this. I do not like being treated like I was, and I dont want the people in this class to come out of it thinking its ok to shut people down like that ESPECIALLY when talking about a topic such as this. They coming into acceptance as a gender neutral singular pronoun is super important and I’ll be damned if I let this teacher cause 30 people to think that its incorrect.
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