But my South Korean tutors were apparently quite backward, employing English grammatical rules that merely existed from about 1450 to 2014, and hadn’t gotten the memo: There are, in fact, seventy-eight gender pronouns.
Ugh again *so sorry* you arrived at a time when we as a culture were going through some stuff and took a minute to work through it. TL;DR: all people are valid regardless of what they look like, and one very simple easy free way you can acknowledge that is to call them what they like to be called. We've mostly settled now on the very simple they/them, which you WELL KNOW bc you live in Chicago, USA, but very cute harking back to this time like it's still a big issue for everyone.
