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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by justshowpost on Thursday July 08, 2021 @10:00PM (#27779749)
> pronouns she/her

Isn't that among the things which should stay at twitter?

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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by bitwize on Friday July 09, 2021 @02:41AM (#27781039)
Absolutely not.

At a barest minimum, some names like Terry are unisex. Other names like Andrea are masculine in some countries and feminine in others. Finally, say you, an English speaker, encountered the web site of a person named Fang. Are they a man or a woman?

Pronouns in the bio help resolve confusion in all these cases, and that's before we get into LGBTQ issues.

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