right. but if ils were gender-neutral than we would either have a word for an all-men group or we would not use elles.

dealing only with the "ils" in french, if it were truly gender-non-specific then there would be no "elles", n'est-çe pas?

the people who understand this least happen to be the president and his appointees

this thread was so interesting! thank you

i mention him because he was with her in denver. and everywhere. and he has run for president, but he has not been president. he's another example of someone staying in his position for too long, like pelosi and rbg.

deeply reluctant my hairy hoohah. there's a reason she went to denver: to emulate obama at the dnc. i think she's deeply disingenuous; I'd respect her a bit more if she were honest about that and about taking lifelong, toe-the-line congressperson lessons from bernie.

I think if you’re running at that point it’s not about serving people, it’s about your ego. Where are the protégés you should have been cultivating? Isn’t it their turn yet?

and that joke about getting rid of the dept of ed hits a little different today