I HATE gender-neutral pronouns. In refuse to use "zie" and "zir" -- I use "them" and "they" if for no other reason than I can keep them straight. And if it was good enough for Jane Austen, it's good enough for me.
I find that I tend to speak and write in such a way as to make someone's gender not apparent. Recently, on a feminist BBS, I was writing about a sweetie as "zie", and some people there asked questions about it. I realized that one of my reasons for saying "zie" was that I didn't think the gender of my sweetie was relevant to the discussion, and that I didn't want to use "they" because I was only talking about one particular sweetie rather than a phenomenon or experience that applies to all current sweeties.
Which is a roundabout way of saying "I often like 'they' and 'them', but this was a situation where I thought there was legitimate confusion about whether I was talking about one person, several people, or many people.
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Which is a roundabout way of saying "I often like 'they' and 'them', but this was a situation where I thought there was legitimate confusion about whether I was talking about one person, several people, or many people.