Re:Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadca...
by thaumasiotes on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:21PM
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> Absolutely no one will confuse my bearded, balding, fat self for a βsheβ.
I was confused once when a doctor gave me the direction "follow him" and there was no male around. A definitely female nurse had just walked out, and that's who I was supposed to follow.
Nothing strange was going on; this happened in China. Chinese doesn't have gender distinctions in pronouns (except in the spelling...), and Chinese speakers aren't able to make the distinction consistently in extemporaneous speech.
The default is 'he', though, so I guess you're still safe from being called 'she'.
I was confused once when a doctor gave me the direction "follow him" and there was no male around. A definitely female nurse had just walked out, and that's who I was supposed to follow.
Nothing strange was going on; this happened in China. Chinese doesn't have gender distinctions in pronouns (except in the spelling...), and Chinese speakers aren't able to make the distinction consistently in extemporaneous speech.
The default is 'he', though, so I guess you're still safe from being called 'she'.