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Why are you needlessly gendering your post (especially as it's wrong)
by philipwhiuk 1y ago
Why are you needlessly gendering your post (especially as it's wrong)
- skrebbel 1y agoI agree with you but I don’t think your confrontational tone is helpful. I think this comment does roughly the same thing, better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44890782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44890782
- fknorangesite 1y ago[flagged]
- zamadatix 1y agoThe only constant on the internet discussion is someone disagrees. Ironically, maybe largely in part from the lack of things like "actual" tone.
- replwoacause 1y agoHN and the knee-jerk dismissal “why do we need this as a service, it’s trivial to script” on Show HN’s…ala Dropbox launch
- tomhow 1y agoKneejerk reactions about everything happen on HN, as they do on every other forum, but that telling of the Dropbox story is inaccurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392302
- philipwhiuk 1y agoI considered the blunt approach but some people find that ruder.
- Aeolun 1y agoWriting ungendered text is exhausting?
- phyzome 1y agoWriting "they care" is soooo many more characters than "he cares"!
- Aeolun 1y agoIt's not about the writing. It's about the fact you even have to consider that people might start correcting you in a way that suggests you were less than forthright in your assumptions (this happens a lot these days). Someone just responding "She." to a comment that misinterpreted gender is just a correction.
- matt_kantor 1y agoI'm having trouble understanding your perspective. > It's not about the writing. But earlier you said: > Writing ungendered text is exhausting? So are you saying that being careful with pronouns is exhausting, or that others correcting you is exhausting? If it's the latter, I find that defaulting to ungendered pronouns results in fewer corrections (though even that bothers some people; you can't make everyone happy).