A person gets to choose their pronoun. (And how else could I write that sentence, without changing it from singular to plural?) From what I understand historically, using "they" for singular indeterminate gender goes back a long time in English. Murderbot's preferred pronoun is very definitely "it". I actually find "they" and "it" easier to deal with than the "she" in the Ancillary series — that took me a while because I had to unlearn what it meant in my own culture. But everyone thinks the Radch are annoyingly arrogant that way.
no subject
A person gets to choose their pronoun. (And how else could I write that sentence, without changing it from singular to plural?) From what I understand historically, using "they" for singular indeterminate gender goes back a long time in English. Murderbot's preferred pronoun is very definitely "it". I actually find "they" and "it" easier to deal with than the "she" in the Ancillary series — that took me a while because I had to unlearn what it meant in my own culture. But everyone thinks the Radch are annoyingly arrogant that way.