I don't understand the confusion with gender neutral pronouns

As a non-native English speaker who learned English at a young age, I was taught that they/them was both a singular and a plural pronoun. So, I've always referred to everything/everyone as they/them for simplicity and mainly because I hated using he/she or him/her. Seeing so many people insist that they/them is only plural is making me so confused.

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CMYep 27 02,2025

Usually when someone has a problem with singular they is just about them not wanting to use neutral pronouns for ideological reasons ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I guess in some contexts there could be some initial confusion, but usually it doesn't take much thinking to understand what they/them is refering to (and if something is actually hard for you to underst...... reply

27 02,2025

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