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Why are people downvoting an author asking that people maybe take a moment to check whether they're responding to a woman before they write "he"? Is it that muc
by kolektiv 17y ago
Why are people downvoting an author asking that people maybe take a moment to check whether they're responding to a woman before they write "he"? Is it that much hassle to check a byline?
- tdoggette 17y agoA small, italic, grey-on-white pair of words, one of which is an uncapitalized name versus The vast majority of tech writers and geeks in general being male Downvoting the guy pointing out the incorrect assumption is unwarranted, yeah, but the assumption is one that'll be correct really, really often.
- ahoyhere 17y agoWhich doesn't mean you shouldn't point it out. (Although yes, that is something I'm fixing when I get around to finishing my design.) By the way - the "guy pointing out the incorrect assumption" is a girl. I'm laughing. :)
- natrius 17y agoYes. I make no apologies for the lack of a gender-neutral human pronoun in the English language. If I don't know someone's gender, I pick one or use awkward constructions involving "the author". Feel free to inform the English language standards body of their oversight so they can correct it for the next version. But yeah, downvoting a correction is silly.