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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by lioeters on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:24AM (#33595296)
It's been acceptable since the 14th century to use "they" as a gender-neutral third-person pronoun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by edflsafoiewq on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:31AM (#33595410)
> It typically occurs with an unspecified antecedent
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Re:Jeff Bezos to give most of his money to charity by everybodyknows on Monday November 14, 2022 @11:41AM (#33596748)
Has Bezos specified "they" as preferred pronoun?
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