Writing "they care" is soooo many more characters than "he cares"!

It's not about the writing. It's about the fact you even have to consider that people might start correcting you in a way that suggests you were less than forthright in your assumptions (this happens a lot these days).

Someone just responding "She." to a comment that misinterpreted gender is just a correction.

	▲	matt_kantor 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm having trouble understanding your perspective. > It's not about the writing. But earlier you said: > Writing ungendered text is exhausting? So are you saying that being careful with pronouns is exhausting, or that others correcting you is exhausting? If it's the latter, I find that defaulting to ungendered pronouns results in fewer corrections (though even that bothers some people; you can't make everyone happy).