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Re:An update about Redis developments in 2019 by ummonk on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:33PM (#19227785)
Thought I just had: using just "he" is obviously exclusionary because it makes males the default. Likewise, people don't just use "she" either. But given that there are people whose preferred pronouns are "they/them", wouldn't that make "they" equally exclusionary?
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Re:An update about Redis developments in 2019 by munificent on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:10PM (#19228685)
No, because singular they is a well-established idiom that conveys "unknown gender", it subsumes people who actually prefer "they" as well as people who prefer "he" and "she".
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Re:An update about Redis developments in 2019 by ummonk on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:35AM (#19232053)
"He" used to serve that purpose and subsumed people with all pronoun preferences.
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Re:An update about Redis developments in 2019 by jerf on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:08PM (#19228132)
English needs a construction for referring to an individual that you don't know. They/them is fine. Someone somewhere is going to decide to get up in arms about that, and there's just nothing to be done about it since it will be a demand to know them before you know them (logically impossible), so don't worry about it.
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Re:An update about Redis developments in 2019 by scott_s on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:45PM (#19227901)
No, because "they/them" is valid for everyone.
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Re:An update about Redis developments in 2019 by mindondrugs on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:46PM (#19227905)
The they/them pronouns are used in place of he/him/she/her because they are ungendered. I fail to see how the use of ungendered pronouns are exclusionary.
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Re:An update about Redis developments in 2019 by ummonk on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:36AM (#19232059)
"They/them" are also preferred pronouns for some non-binary people, in which case they are being used as gendered pronouns.
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Re:An update about Redis developments in 2019 by testplzignore on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:51PM (#19227968)
It certainly seems biased towards conjoined twins.
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