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And… forgive me for saying so, but they’re tedious, at best. That’s not punching down on anyone’s identity. It’s a commentary on how such neologisms make parsing a sentence far less reflexive and a good bit more unnecessarily arcane, without actually communicating any level of additional meaningful information or context.
Yup, I pretty much agree with all that you say.
It's quite easy, when you read "drag", it means "I", that's literally the extent of it.
But let's dig into this a little. Your argument covers literally half of all words. Let's take this comment as an example, we want to strip everything out of it that doesn't communicate.
No one adheres to this because it makes you sound like a damn caveman. But if you feel so strongly about this, that's how you prune all the unnecessary cognitive load from your speech.
But if replacing one meaningless pronoun with another meaningless pronoun is so arcane that you can't parse the meaning of the sentence afterward, there's always the option of just not engaging with it. It doesn't harm you or anyone else and it isn't hate speech so just let people express themselves how they want to.
I also find Picasso's cubist paintings to be tedious to look at but you don't see me trying to tell him that he's painting The Weeping Woman the wrong way.