On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:41:56 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2015 at 18:18:55 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
It's always a good idea to not go personal, but I think they
overdo it when you're not allowed to write "he" as a general
term because it is gender specific.
That's actually a good idea, you might not have noticed it, but
I rarely use "he" alone as a general term and I notice it when
other people do. Little things like this in language can make a
difference in people's feelings and cause discomfort in the
environment.
Contrary to technical official definition, in REAL WORLD usage,
"he" is BOTH a masuline AND a gender-neutral pronoun. A few
occasional nutbags who deliberately ignore the "gender-neutral"
possibility in order to promote their "you are all sexists"
agenda is NO excuse for bowing to thier pressure.
