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> his mind is re-trained to expect boredom rather than drama > he will find a new person to provide drama and he will find himself drawn to you less and less o
by justinjlynn 7y ago
> his mind is re-trained to expect boredom rather than drama
> he will find a new person to provide drama and he will find himself drawn to you less and less often
> he can’t stand boredom
Unnecessarily gendered language is jarring for the reader and also, (possibly) unintentionally, sexist. The singular they/them/their is generally acceptable to use in cases such as these.
- oska 7y agoI noticed the same thing. Maybe I should have got a quote from elsewhere as it's not particularly well written. Nevertheless, it still gets the concept across.
- DagAgren 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_narcissism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_narcissism
- randomchars 7y agoShould all previous content be rewritten on the internet to be PC? This is from 2012, and as far as I've noticed, this gender neutral thingy started coming up a few years after that.
- toxik 7y agoIn the same way that you wouldn't quote somebody on the whimsical nature of the feeble woman, you shouldn't propagate ideas that paint men as perpetrators. In 2012, this was already well-known. The language is jarring and sexist for no apparent reason. It is not undue revisionism.
- winkeltripel 7y ago> It is not undue revisionism. Any level of revisionism is undue.
- toxik 7y agoI think you need to brush up on what revisionism means in the historical context, so let me help you: > In historiography, the term historical revisionism identifies the re-interpretation of the historical record. It usually means challenging the orthodox (established, accepted or traditional) views held by professional scholars about a historical event, introducing contrary evidence, or reinterpreting the motivations and decisions of the people involved. The revision of the historical record can reflect new discoveries of fact, evidence, and interpretation, which then provokes a revised history. In dramatic cases, revisionism involves a reversal of older moral judgments. In other words, it is historical revisionism that reinterprets history through modern values where slavery is wrong, and women can vote.
- DagAgren 7y agoPerpetrators are most often men, though. That's not good, no! But you do not fix that problem by pretending it does not exist. The point of not using gendered language is to compensate for discrimination, not to hide problems.
- corobo 7y agoYeah, sounds good.
- Hnrobert42 7y agoI disagree. I did not find it jarring nor did I perceive it as sexist.
- vraivroo 7y agoOh, well then that settles it everybody. Hnrobert42 doesn't think sexist language is sexist.
- Hnrobert42 7y agoHow is my point any more or less valid than the one to which I was responding? I was simply offering that I don’t perceive the language as sexist. You do. That’s fine. Similarly, I would offer that I don’t find your sarcasm productive in a civil discussion.
- zadokshi 7y agoPerhaps we need a browser plugin for people to detect when ‘he’ is being used as the default gender and convert it? ‘He’ worked as the default pronoun for a long time in many languages all over the world. (And still does in many languages) I find it curious how many people can be sold into the idea that a language can be considered sexist.
- hnuser123456 7y agoIt's not that English is sexist, it's that the passage is sexist. Using "they" as gender neutral has been around for decades.
- leshenka 7y ago> browser plugin They exist. I'm not sure that they can de-gender language, but they can swap word A for word B
- greendestiny_re 7y agoI didn't notice the gender at all.