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(he -> she)

• Freak_NL 10y ago
  Edited. I usually omit he or she if I don't know the gender of the person referred to. I used he in that byline (I used the author in the main phrases) as the generic pronoun (i.e., any author of such a single-div experiment), but that may not have been clear from the context.
  • roywiggins 10y ago
    I find "they" almost always works fine as a gender-free singular pronoun.
    • chronolitus 10y ago
      "it" "that thing" "the human" "this being"
      • ahoy 10y ago
        "They" is a widely accepted gender-neutral (or unknown) pronoun, none of those things you typed are.
      • roywiggins 10y ago
        Only the first one is a pronoun, and it's one generally reserved for nonhumans. I'm sure there are people out there happy to be called 'it' (or even prefer 'it' over other pronouns) but not very many. 'They' seems much more neutral to me.