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Re:I Posted Myself Out of a Job by Hamuko on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @07:48AM (#36599005)
"He" is also used as a gender-neutral pronoun, much like "man" is used for "person".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/he#Pronoun

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Re:I Posted Myself Out of a Job by outcoldman on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:28AM (#36600942)
Not a native speaker, but my assumption is that we are trying to go easy on “guys”, “man” and “he”. It is not hard to say “they”, “person”, “people”.

Also, I cannot really explain really well, but it seems like there is a big difference saying “he” about just mythical person, and referring to a real person (whose gender you don’t know).

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Re:I Posted Myself Out of a Job by eadmund on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:51AM (#36601226)
> It is not hard to say “they”, “person”, “people”.

Not hard, but incorrect.

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Re:I Posted Myself Out of a Job by jjj123 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:31AM (#36601820)
Yep you’re 100% spot on. “He” works with hypotheticals (even if that’s a bit outdated) but not when talking about a specific person.
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