Re:How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso...
by kintamanimatt on Sunday October 27, 2013 @12:20PM
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It's not really any less correct than a genderless pronoun, even if one particular panel disagreed. I see no reason to use a masculine pronoun when a generic one will do, and could only call it "political correct nonsense" if an author insisted on either alternating between he and she, or used "he/she".
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Re:How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Perso...
by jiggy2011 on Sunday October 27, 2013 @01:31PM
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I find things written with lots of genderless pronouns can make the writing unclear. Lots of "They" , "Their" feels unnatural and clumsy when talking about people and it can become difficult to decipher which parts of the text are referring to a person and which to some inanimate thing.
Just as frustrating is writing that switches pronoun gender when referring to ostensibly the same person. However describing some operation between two people "Alice and Bob" it can improve clarity to make both people belong to different genders.