Quote Originally Posted by Gula View Post
College English class might be getting to your head a bit or you've got to be trolling.
One of my degrees is in literary criticism and writing, if they were an actual academic linguist and not just an armchair linguist they would know this is a perfectly proper way to use the term "they".

Don't blame higher education on this one, just like most ppl claiming to be an expert, they likely got this info from a meme or a facebook post.