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Re:The C256 Phoenix Project aka What Commodore 256 could hav... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:34PM (#17281551)
English doesn't have a third-person gender-neutral pronoun and traditionally uses "he" when the gender is unknown, so it isn't really surprising that people, at least English speaking people, assume "male" until they know otherwise.
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Re:The C256 Phoenix Project aka What Commodore 256 could hav... by rusk on Monday June 11, 2018 @07:48AM (#17283463)
"They" and "Their" are perfectly acceptable as gender neutral pronouns. A stickler might object, but also bear in mind that in English there's no "proper" second person plural ...
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Re:The C256 Phoenix Project aka What Commodore 256 could hav... by TaylorAlexander on Monday June 11, 2018 @04:32AM (#17282717)
You’re describing a historical norm, but it’s one I feel is rooted in a historical bias. Men ran the world and defined the word “man” to mean a person of any gender, but that was always an act by men. I’d like to see this kind of bias removed from our language, and it takes individual choice to make that so.
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