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Yeah, true. Most authors seem to like to assume male, though. :(
by Somasis 11y ago
Yeah, true. Most authors seem to like to assume male, though. :(
- reinhardt 11y agoYeah, contrary to the overwhelming evidence of evil female hackers... /s
- ExpiredLink 11y ago>> I won't post it on here because it isn't my intention to start a witch hunt. It must be a female.
- MichaelGG 11y agoNo, many authors just use the default pronoun, which happens to be male. I don't like it. But that's a defect in English. They/Them is less precise. Using "her" actually apparently attracts attention away from the content. Perhaps mixing both within a longer body of text is a more subtle way.
- jakobegger 11y agoI like "they". It's especially suitable in this case, because we don't even know if it is a single person, or a group, or maybe even an automated attack (allthough that sounds unlikely). "They" leaves it open to the reader to imagine their stereotypical hacker.