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The author has the first name "John Carlos". Why not take an educated guess and use (gasp) gendered pronouns?
by 9911o9w8191 10y ago
The author has the first name "John Carlos". Why not take an educated guess and use (gasp) gendered pronouns?
- pohl 10y agoBecause the byline wasn't easy to find on the device I read it on, and the possibility that someone might be offended by gender neutrality seemed far-fetched at the time.
- random28345 10y ago> The author has the first name "John Carlos". Why not take an educated guess and use (gasp) gendered pronouns? Because the text of the article could have been generated by a Turing machine with the pseudonym "John Carlos". And on the internet, nobody knows if you're a man, woman, dog, or sufficiently complicated state machine. tl;dr: Non-gendered pronouns are inclusive and never inappropriate on the internet.