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"or her". But then some team might complain, let alone all the transgender. Can we, just for a second, assume good faith and instead inspect your wise (but girl
by TomK32 16y ago
"or her". But then some team might complain, let alone all the transgender. Can we, just for a second, assume good faith and instead inspect your wise (but girly) words?
PS: As a foreigner learning German, do you notice the small differences in German? I have a somewhat disappointed view on the matter of these pathetic and almost zynic gendering of language. What's the point of it as long as women here in Austria earn 30% less than men do? It's wrong to believe that things can change by using a different wording.
- _corbett 16y agoWell it does make a difference to me. So there's one data point. I used to think like you do... some things changed my mind. At MIT they (my professors, colleagues and textbooks) always used non-gendered language. Here's a good essay by Douglas R. Hofstadter that got me thinking about the issue http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html