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however

"it" is not a gender-neutral pronoun. "it" is a gender-neutral pronoun that happens to be only used for things that are considered to either not have a gender or not worth caring about
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then suggest an alternative

There should be third-person pronouns for sapient things, other third-person pronouns for other sentient things, and another set for everything else. We also need a separate plural second-person set.
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this
 
But then you inevitably get some whiny git who proclaims "HOW DARE YOU USE THE WORD 'HE' YOU MISOGYNISTIC PIG etc."

of course, the simplest solution is to spend half a minute of your life assigning yourself a gender in your profile. it doesn't even have to be the right one, so as long as you don't mind being referred to by the accompanying pronoun.

On a related note, if you complain when people refer to you by your current username, then you deserve to be falconpunched.

edit: wow i just realised the irony in my last sentance :3
 
I see the masculine he and the neutral he as homographs. They are different words.
 
It's not that they don't 'know': it's that they don't agree.
 
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