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"He" is also used as a gender-neutral pronoun, much like "man" is used for "person". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/he#Pronoun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/h
by Hamuko 3y ago
"He" is also used as a gender-neutral pronoun, much like "man" is used for "person".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/he#Pronoun https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/he#Pronoun
- outcoldman 3y agoNot a native speaker, but my assumption is that we are trying to go easy on “guys”, “man” and “he”. It is not hard to say “they”, “person”, “people”. Also, I cannot really explain really well, but it seems like there is a big difference saying “he” about just mythical person, and referring to a real person (whose gender you don’t know).