Depends on timeline really, but short answer is you’re still wrong.
Shakespeare era literature defaulted to the singular they, he/she was only used in specific and rare situations.
So compared to 40 years ago, the singular they is having a resurgence. Compared to 400 years ago and it’s barely being used today.
What should make it obvious that English is becoming more gendered and not less, is other western European languages even have gendered nouns. Put a Spaniard, a German, and a Frenchman in a room with a table and they’re just gonna argue what kind of genitals the table would have if it was a hypothetical living thing.
That also helps illustrate how a language can just drop gender, English just uses “the” while other languages use something like “die, der, das” all to mean the same as “the”.
Depends on timeline really, but short answer is you’re still wrong.
Shakespeare era literature defaulted to the singular they, he/she was only used in specific and rare situations.
So compared to 40 years ago, the singular they is having a resurgence. Compared to 400 years ago and it’s barely being used today.
What should make it obvious that English is becoming more gendered and not less, is other western European languages even have gendered nouns. Put a Spaniard, a German, and a Frenchman in a room with a table and they’re just gonna argue what kind of genitals the table would have if it was a hypothetical living thing.
That also helps illustrate how a language can just drop gender, English just uses “the” while other languages use something like “die, der, das” all to mean the same as “the”.