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Some people deliberately refer to hypothetical engineers as female, to counterbalance the pervasive usage of masculine pronouns. Personally, I like writers who
by bcbrown 13y ago
Some people deliberately refer to hypothetical engineers as female, to counterbalance the pervasive usage of masculine pronouns. Personally, I like writers who mix it up like that and refer to a generic person as female sometimes.
- mbillie1 13y agoI assumed this as well.
- crazygringo 13y agoI've heard of people suggesting that you use your own gender as a writer. But the author is "Justin", and his photo looks pretty masculine -- very interesting, I've never seen a guy default to "her" before in text.
- eriklarsnilsen 13y agoI thought his picture was rather masculine as well. Very intimidating for a "she."