This whole pronoun shit has made people completely forget (or just refuse to learn after the fact) how proper grammar has worked for centuries.
In addition to the once common usage of expressing unfamiliarity with someone, They/Their has pretty much always been used to refer to someone of unknown sex (the most frequent pop culture references I can think of are mystery novels where the perpetrator is being described without giving clues to who it is).
But there's a big group of uneducated insisting on some form of pronoun purity just to spite the woke, and don't seem to realise they have allowed 'them' to subvert our language even further.
This whole pronoun shit has made people completely forget (or just refuse to learn after the fact) how proper grammar has worked for centuries.
In addition to the once common usage of expressing unfamiliarity with someone, They/Their has pretty much always been used to refer to someone of unknown sex (the most frequent pop culture references I can think of are mystery novels where the perpetrator is being described without giving clues to who it is).
But there's a big group of uneducated insisting on some form of pronoun purity just to spite the woke, and don't seem to realise they have allowed 'them' to subvert our language even further.
We know his son's sex though.
You missed it:
Because that's what u/m0r1arty said was his reason for using a non-specific pronoun.
Both uses were very much common grammatical uses before this woke shit started. Downvotes and disagreeing don't change reality.
I disagree. Elon literally said he was talking about his son, so I'm gonna be calling this troglodyte "Xavier" and a him.
The person we're talking about is known and their actual sex is known.
Source: the hilarious graffity in Pompe.