Apocalypto!

[elfs]

No one can outrun their destiny.

Look, Mel. I can probably forgive the anti-semitic bullshit. I can understand that everyone carries a little-- or a lot-- of hypocritical bigotry inside them for one group or another, and it is the hypocrisy of keeping it inside all the time while living up to the higher standards of public discourse that make civilization clank along in its ungainly fashion like Frankenstein's Monster.

But get your freaking tagline's grammar right! Okay? "No one can outrun his destiny." Got it? Repeat after me. "No one can outrun his destiny." Singular referent, singular reference. Make sure you get it right before you put it on posters going up in every theater across the planet! Otherwise people really will start to think you really are a bloody idiot.

I'm just sayin'.

Comments

[vik_thor]

»points up« What they said.

I use the singular they quite a bit. Not saying that makes it correct, just that its use is quite common.
(and this should not be construed as an endorsement of Mr. Mel...)

[(Anonymous)]

I find myself using it in preference to non-gender-neutral pronouns a lot of the time. I'm more likely to say 'I just talked to them, and they said it was alright' than 'I just talked to him, and he said it was alright'.