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I've become increasingly annoyed by Musk's personality, ego, Twitter tantrums and his deceptive statements. I used to be a big fan and follower of anything Elon
by RivieraKid 8y ago
I've become increasingly annoyed by Musk's personality, ego, Twitter tantrums and his deceptive statements. I used to be a big fan and follower of anything Elon-related. Still a fan of SpaceX.
Having said that, I think they make well-designed, innovative and inspiring products. Build quality and financials are terrible though.
> A fund manager can be as risky as she likes
This is off-topic but... am I the only one that finds this cringey and forced, given that it's such a such male-dominated field?
- J_cst 8y ago> am I the only one that finds this cringey and forced You are not the only one. I also find this politically-correctness quite useless and - in this particular case - also insulting towards women.
- duderific 8y agoYes, you see that everywhere nowadays... why not just say "A fund manager can be as risky as they like" and leave it at that.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoFWIW, I'm a woman and I'm a big fan of singular they. It is also possible to avoid pronouns altogether at times. It's more work to both do that and not sound stilted and weird. I have made my peace with occasionally sounding stilted, such as A fund manager can be as risky as a fund manager likes. When I had a corporate job, some training examples advocated finding ways to rewrite the sentence to sanitize it of gender rather than using awkward constructions like he or she. It's more work, but if you do it habitually it gets easier.
- RivieraKid 8y agoYeah, I use "they" most of the time. When I can't think of a phrasing that wouldn't sound weird I occasionally just use "he" or "she", depending on which is more likely. It's not a huge deal.
- phyzome 8y agoIt's an older style of dealing with the pronoun-of-a-hypothetical-person problem. It dates the writer (or style guide) a little.