Raleigh wrote:
I personally like "it" but many don't feel comfortable using that.
Why not?
many have grown to associate the "it" pronoun with inanimate, inhuman, unfeeling objects, often it's used as a derogatory, and i think the group of people wanting to be called "it" is only recently (relatively speaking...) starting to grow.
the connotation may be ingrained in our collective linguistic consciousness, at that point it's hard to undo...my two cents
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