Ask Certain Doom #1

Thanks for sending us our very first Ask Certain Doom question, Ben B. of Sacramento, CA. Sounds like you’ve got a serious problem here and that problem is being an unnecessary stickler for gendered singular pronouns. You’ve gotta let it go, buddy. “Their” time has come. (See what we did there? their? they’re?)

Here are some reasons:

• Like Grammarist says, English needs singular gender-neutral pronouns
• Singular they/their is already part of the common parlance;  the American Dialect Society proclaimed the singular ‘they’ word of the year in 2015
• In fact, some of the English language’s greatest authors used singular ‘they’ in some of their finest works.
• With more and more folks self-identifying as gender non-binary, it’s just plain easier
• Besides, according to NPR, Everyone Uses Singular ‘They,’ Whether They Realize It Or Not

Anywho, on to your question. We think there are three clear options here:

OPTION ONE –…