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Re:Singular ‘They’ Is Word of the Year by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @03:08PM (#10665455)
Now we know how women feel, all day long every day. It'd be reasonable to say "get over it", which is essentially what women hear all their lives.
Re:Singular ‘They’ Is Word of the Year by volaski on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:17PM (#10665879)
Your sentence is obviously valid but i'm not sure how it relates to my comment
Re:Singular ‘They’ Is Word of the Year by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @05:43PM (#10666426)
Its equally ridiculous to use either gendered form for the wrong group. But groups of women are called 'guys' all the time. The observation that it sounds funny/annoying when a group of 'dudes' is labeled using a feminine term, is only something a male would notice. I'm suggesting 'get over it' because men have no special right to be not-annoyed by this.
Re:Singular ‘They’ Is Word of the Year by volaski on Friday December 04, 2015 @01:06PM (#10677922)
Please don't try to use wordplay to get your feminist ideology across. Nobody calls a girl "Him" in real life, just like nobody calls a guy "Her" in real life. That's what I pointed out, not some interpretation of "guys" (I can go on forever talking about the semantics for that term too but that's not even what I was talking about)
Re:Singular ‘They’ Is Word of the Year by JoeAltmaier on Saturday December 05, 2015 @11:05AM (#10682241)
I didn't think equality was a 'feminist ideology'. Its just humanism. That original point is, using 'her' to refer to a group of people, even men, seems odd. Its no less reasonable than using 'him'. So there are good reasons to mix it up.

On a similar topic, I find it more amenable in an HN discussion to remove all references to 'you' and 'your'. Its adding nothing to the discussion, can feel like an attack, and distracts from the topic, to the people talking. Its close to Ad Hominem.