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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by bentcorner on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:10PM (#31125726)
Explicit pronouns are actually useful for communicating with coworkers. If you communicate with people who have names that don't hint at gender (or are in a language you are completely unfamiliar with), having pronouns available helps to avoid some basic communication gaffes. Think of it as human type hinting.
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Re:Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-domina... by recursive on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:30PM (#31126008)
In that metaphor, why is gender part of the type hierarchy in this context? Why is that the first-class classification for concrete implementations of `Person`? Why not hair color? Why not height? Why not age? I feel like everyone would have been better off if pronouns weren't even gendered to start with. But now that would be an incendiary political crusade, which I'm not interested in.
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