Shipwrecked & Comatose

As most people know, I am not a big coffee aficionado.  I liken coffee to vanilla.  Coffee, like vanilla, can be a good flavor enhancer for desserts (but is not a good standalone flavor such as in vanilla ice cream - BORING), but a straight up cup of the stuff can be a bit   unpleasant tasting, just as drinking vanilla extract or eating the contents of a vanilla bean isn't an enjoyable experience. A plain cup of mere coffee is a foul tasting cup of mud.   More importantly, I have never wanted to be the kind of person who is dependent on coffee to get through the day.  I see too many people caught up in the endless cycle of needing that constant jolt to the nervous system to avoid crashing.  I know it's harmless, but to me that's no way to live your life.  I don’t want to live from cup to cup.   It's funny how when I tell people that, they wonder how I function.  Do I drink tea instead?  Am I a soda junkie?  I must get my e...

I suspect some readers will start reading this and feel offended.  Before you take offense, please read this post through to the end . I am a cisgendered woman.  I am a cisgendered woman.  There is only one of me.  If you don't address me as Rachel, you can more generically refer to me as she.  You can point me out as her.  There is no reason to call me they or them, and yet people do. I see memes like this online and it makes me stabby even though the video itself is uplifting and fun. A single cisgendered woman is not a "they". How has it become acceptable for a single person to be referred to as they or them?  These are plural pronouns. My best guess is it started because of confusion over indefinite pronouns.  I remember the day my English teacher talked about this in Eleventh Grade English class with such clarity.  We see words such as "someone" or "somebody" as a group.  We also don’t see a gender in these pronouns.  That’s...