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Just say gentleman's agreement. It's okay to use a real phrase.
by coderdude 11y ago
Just say gentleman's agreement. It's okay to use a real phrase.
- Yaggo 11y agoThanks sir, but I prefer gender neutral wording. (Note to self: humor, do not use.)
- markdown 11y agoThen why didn't you use gender-neutral wording?
- luckydata 11y agohow is that neutral?
- Stratoscope 11y agoNot only is it OK to use a real phrase like "gentleman's agreement", it communicates better. People will more easily understand what you mean, and they won't be distracted when you attempt to be gender-neutral by calling attention to gender.
- Yaggo 11y agoThe above is all true but only because gender-neutral words are not yet used widely enough, and the only way to change that is to systemically prefer gender-neutral words. Isn't it part of hacker mentality that one should fix broken things and one should not be afraid of change? (I guess this is largely culture related thing, but e.g. among my peers (high educated 30s Europeans) gender-biased words actually cause more distraction.)
- cptskippy 11y agoWhat an odd thing to get your knickers in a twist about.
- FroshKiller 11y agoYour affectation of the old terminal-style backspacing joke is way more distracting than "gentleman's agreement" could ever have been. And anyway, I think you'd have been better off just saying, "I wish we could all agree...."