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Re:A blogging style guide by _oqcu on Friday December 07, 2018 @09:04AM (#18627689)
Just use the generic he[1]. It's classic and has the benefit of not injecting politics into an unrelated issue.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-person_pronoun#Generic_h...

Re:A blogging style guide by egypturnash on Friday December 07, 2018 @11:42AM (#18629115)
So the problem is that there’s no way to disguish the “generic” he from the “gendered” he, and it is very easy to read everything that uses the generic as being gendered, and then you suddenly have a world where only guys exist, which is probably some sort of political statement.

The singular they[1] has precedent going back to the fourteenth century. Just use that.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Re:A blogging style guide by azangru on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:14PM (#18630039)
> and then you suddenly have a world where only guys exist, which is probably some sort of political statement.

I wish people who felt about that strongly and wanted to make a political statement just used the gendered she creating the fictional world where only girls exist. That would have been so much simpler and avoided so much pointless arguments over the grammatical number and gender of pronouns.

Re:A blogging style guide by kaitai on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:43PM (#18631430)
As a mathematician I use the generic she as it's got a better expected value if you're optimizing for being right.