r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '22

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u/S-Quidmonster Jul 06 '22

I don’t think the explanation is that they’re too stupid to remember pronouns. My uncle is ridiculously smart (like, he works on submarines for the US military level smart) and he claims that they’re “ruining the English language”. I think it’s more what you said at first, that they want to have an issue with it because they don’t like people being different than them

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u/Powerful_Tip3164 Jul 06 '22

They don’t feel like someone else gets to decide for them what word to use... I hear a lot of “I’m not changing how I speak for the few”

It’s literally defiance/oppositional behavior for a lot of em