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No, 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
by MichaelGG 12y ago
No, 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 12y 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.