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So have you been using "they" in you comments from the very beginning, or have you used "she", or "he"?

• heterogenic 13y ago
  I can't find any examples of a pronoun in my personal repository or work repository, but in a few bug submissions I say "she". But if anyone ever challenged me on it, or suggested it was inappropriate, or rejected a pull request, I'd _totally_ understand. Just as if I accidentally said something which was accidentally racist or ethnocentric. It's not about the original "he", it's about the rejection of active inclusion. edit: Scanned my whole code tree and ticket database, and found 7 "she"'s, 5 "he"'s and 8 "they"'s. The gendered pronouns were all referring to specific people, except for one "she", referring to a hypothetical external API customer. I've just patched it to "they". Of course, my team works for a female CTO (me) and is ~50/50 m/f, so we are very much not representative. But since this was totally unplanned, this suggests a curious corollary that the absence of default-masculinity seems to be at least be correlated with gender equality in an office.
  • knowitall 13y ago
    It's not that surprising that the presence of a diverse mix of people makes it likely for imaginary people to be less stereotyped. I must admit as a non-native speaker, I am still not quite sure how to properly use "they". I wasn't aware of the possibility before this discussion occurred.