User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-2162194-20130713192557/@comment-5918438-20160116061450

You brought it up yourself, so I was replying. Anyway, it's not irrelevant to this discussion to bring up real current grammar, because proper grammar is required and essential here on this wiki.

What I am debating here is that "he" is no longer correct as a gender-neutral pronoun, and should never be used as such. If a story uses he/him pronouns entirely for a character, we use those pronouns, as stated; no problem. But if it doesn't, we do not make that leap.

I was also making the point that "it" is long deprecated, as a personal pronoun, if it was ever accepted as a respectful pronoun for people.

Anyway, for the most part, I think we should look to the texts and/or scripts of the story in question, and if a certain pronoun is used all the time, make use of that. When stories run into conflict with each other in terms of pronouns, though, or pronouns are unclear/unstated, I think we should always default to they/them pronouns when describing a person.