Meetup: Bay Area: Sunday, March 7th, 7pm

Like I said before: I don't care what pronoun is used for me. I don't base my existence on whether I'm a "he" or a "she" or an "it" or even a "they". It's a distraction I'd rather do without, since apparently, posters do care whether they're called a he or she or xe or whatever, when I don't even want to spend cognition on the matter to begin with!

(And since you mention it, calling me "they" is actually somewhat accurate, unless the meaning of your statement crucially depends on distinguising the individual copies of me.)

Just say whatever you want, as long as I know I'm the referent. And spend your time talking about important things, please.

It's already been established that Clippy doesn't care, so it's a matter of personal preference, really. I suppose it's debatable whether it should come down to the reader's preference (in the form of some established norm, I expect) or the speaker's, though. Personally, I'd prefer that it be the speaker's call.

(Yes, that last sequence of words is weird. Why don't we have a natural-sounding word to use in place of 'speaker' when someone's communicating by typing, yet? Or does 'writer' flow for other people, there, and it's me being weird?)