The "Black Hole" of woke....

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Think about it. If you look male but dress female it would attract unwarranted attention in public.

... and for a singular person of undetermined gender.

e.g. "If that person ever finishes work, they will go home."

It's more common than you realise to say "they" for an individual.

Speaking of assuming bad intentions, when I lived in Montana, I worked at a hotel and another woman worked there and she was from Taiwan. We got along well, she spoke great English but sometimes I had difficulty understanding her if she didn't say words correctly.

Then one day she told our boss I said she didn't speak good English. This was a lie because this never happened. But my boss talked to me about it and I said I never said that. I go home and talk to my mom because I was very upset about it. My mom had me believe it was a misunderstanding and she may have mistranslated what I said. I go back to work and talk to my boss and she was like "it's possible it might have happened."

I move on thinking it was over. But it happens again but this time it was something else regarding her language. I decide to not ever talk to her again. Then she complains about me again weeks later and I think she is lying about me. I forget what her complaints were but I remember she just got mad at me one day for not understanding her direction saying something about her English not being good. It came out of nowhere. I simply couldn't learn some of her words fastce enough because there were certain things she couldn't say in English so I had difficulty understanding her so I would ask and she started to get mad because I was repeating her directions and asking what something is she is saying.

I do repeat directions I'm told and will repeat exact words I hear trying to understand it. But sadly some immigrants will think you're bring xenophobic because of your disability and it is difficult for me to understand different accents and if words are said different, I won't understand it so I will ask and repeat to try and understand so they can help me.

But eventually this employee quit because she didn't agree with something at work with our boss. I don't know if it was because of me.

I have an aspie friend with hearing loss so heavy accents are hard for him too. For me it might be auditory processing issues that make it difficult for me. I often ask "what?" When I don't understand.

I am sure there are people who purposly don't understand or repeat their words to mock them because they think if you are going to be in our country, speak English right.

But I have pissed some immigrants off for not understanding them but when they actually started writing down words they couldn't say, I read it and understood so that showed I wasn't purposly being obtuse.

People say you get used to accents so it gets easier. Not for me. I still have troubles. I still can't understand a woman at my job despite knowing her for ten years. I still haven't figured her accent out and I think she gave up on me. I also shop at the local convenient store near my work and I still have difficulty understanding the Vietnamese guy sometimes but he kept talking to me and I eventually learned words he is saying in English I ask "what?" a lot less often. It takes patience and lot of people are not patient with me.

My boyfriend is not an immigrant (he's a Mayflower descendant), but he has a speech impairment that is often mistaken for a foreign accent. He has also lived in quite a few places around the country. Everywhere he has lived except NYC, he has been hassled about his speech impairment, by people outright telling him to go back to wherever he came from, or by people just getting very impatient with him or outright refusing to talk to him

there a way that you can get tested for auditory processing issues? If so, then at least you'll have a good excuse

Even worse, there are also people who "politely" pretend to understand when they really don't

This probably varies by locale. In places where people do in fact get hassled a lot for their accents, they might be quick to jump to the conclusion that that's what's happening

[This was in Montana

And more often than not an anonymous person of undetermined gender....... I'm on about calling an person who is already know as "They" which goes against every meaning in the word that I "eventually" learned.

That explains nothing. I asked why are these people aggressive?

Even worse, there are also people who "politely" pretend to understand when they really don't.

Read the article. Passive aggression and microaggression is normal experience of most people who are " visibly different". I'm not asking you to change your behaviour toward somebody who is trans, but don't be surprised how they react when you misgender them in speech.

You can learn another meaning, just like one does with many other words in their vocabulary throughout their life.

Having another meaning of the word “they” is a strange thing to get upset about. It’s blowing things WAY out of proportion.

Living languages are fluid. This change won’t (and hasn’t) lead to much confusion. I’ve never found it a problem. As with anything, context should make it abundantly clear which meaning of “they” is being used in a sentence. It’s a non-problem.

I take it you're 500 years old and experienced this degree of fluid change then?