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What makes it unfortunate that it used masculine pronouns? If it had used purely female pronouns would that make you feel better?
by butwhywhyoh 5y ago
What makes it unfortunate that it used masculine pronouns? If it had used purely female pronouns would that make you feel better?
- potatoman22 5y agoProbably not. The issue with always using one set of pronouns is that people with other pronouns may feel isolated. For example, always assuming software devs are male could cause female devs to feel like they don't belong. Realistically, it's really hard to fix this encoded bias in language models.
- alana314 5y agoIt does. Thanks for expressing this.
- cassonmars 5y agoYeah it’s always annoyingly jarring when people assume that. You can even see in the comments on this topic that people attack the suggestion of gender neutral language, which further compounds on the feeling like we don’t belong or are explicitly unwanted.
- gowld 5y agoThere are certain people whose disapproval is a badge of honor. They show up in threads like this.