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 That's just not how language works. You can't redefine basic grammar on the fly based in your personal preference and whim, otherwise communication becomes impossible.

Or rather, let me qualify that: you CAN do all that. Just don't expect me to go with it, and even less demand punishment when I don't. 
 it‘s great that there is pushback against this nonsense. If you see how they butchered the german language … you can barely call that a natural language nowadays. It started with „women don’t feel themselves represented“ and now it‘s a mix of computer code and tongue twisters. 
 Oh I can imagine, having three grammatical genders and all. We have two and the crazies have made it impossible to put a serious formal speech together without sounding retarded.