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Why do you assume from a single comment that I "only ever us[e] one gender"? If I were a writer who is sensitive to these issues, and who tries to address them
by smacktoward 8y ago
Why do you assume from a single comment that I "only ever us[e] one gender"? If I were a writer who is sensitive to these issues, and who tries to address them by taking care to mix up using he/his and she/hers when writing, would it not be the case that you might see one comment from me using he/his and then another one later using she/hers?
(And note that for some singular-they advocates "he/she" and "her/him" aren't really any better either, as they omit trans folk and other non-binary people as much as using "he" in one place and "she" in the next does.)
This is a place where the language is rapidly evolving, is all I'm saying, and therefore maybe we should lean towards reading people charitably until such time as a consensus has been reached.