I think you might be coming across as the moron here. Not someone who has done their ‘ritual’ for 10 years.

Let him live as he wishes.

I find the tenacity inspiring, although I have no intention of replicating the feat.

Why are you guys saying they if the author is clearly a guy?

The singular they has been common in English for almost four hundred years. If gender is unknown or irrelevant to the sentence, then they is completely grammatically correct.

If you're trying to make a political statement, then I think that pointing out the use of they is more of a statement than the use of it is.

this is not a political statement, the author's gender is just known so there's no reason to use they

> If gender is unknown or irrelevant to the sentence, then they is completely grammatically correct.

Emphasis on the relevancy.

At risk of… what? Being uncomfortable?