A sad day for grammar purists: The Washington Post will allow “singular they”!
Can I use “they”?BATTLE IS LOST: Welcome to “Singular They”!
Can I use “they”?Category: Gender-neutral language
Can I use “they”?MORE ON SINGULAR “THEY” FROM DENNIS BARON’S WEB OF LANGUAGE
New Post at College Composition Weekly: Kimberly Drake, Genderqueering Language
In a special issue of The Writing Instructor, Drake writes about efforts at Scripps College to make language more inclusive, arguing that such efforts still reflect a false “gender binary” that erases students who do not fit into the normative categories. She argues for uses of language that refuse the binary and demand recognition of the complexities of gender. Visit and leave your thoughts on this issue! http://collegecompositionweekly.com/summaries/