Why are you needlessly gendering your post (especially as it's wrong)

I agree with you but I don’t think your confrontational tone is helpful. I think this comment does roughly the same thing, better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44890782

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philipwhiuk 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I considered the blunt approach but some people find that ruder.

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fknorangesite 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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zamadatix 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The only constant on the internet discussion is someone disagrees. Ironically, maybe largely in part from the lack of things like "actual" tone.

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replwoacause 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

HN and the knee-jerk dismissal “why do we need this as a service, it’s trivial to script” on Show HN’s…ala Dropbox launch

	▲	tomhow a day ago \| parent [-]
		Kneejerk reactions about everything happen on HN, as they do on every other forum, but that telling of the Dropbox story is inaccurate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392302

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Aeolun 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Writing ungendered text is exhausting?

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phyzome 2 days ago | parent [-]

Writing "they care" is soooo many more characters than "he cares"!

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Aeolun 2 days ago | parent [-]

It's not about the writing. It's about the fact you even have to consider that people might start correcting you in a way that suggests you were less than forthright in your assumptions (this happens a lot these days).

Someone just responding "She." to a comment that misinterpreted gender is just a correction.

	▲	matt_kantor 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm having trouble understanding your perspective. > It's not about the writing. But earlier you said: > Writing ungendered text is exhausting? So are you saying that being careful with pronouns is exhausting, or that others correcting you is exhausting? If it's the latter, I find that defaulting to ungendered pronouns results in fewer corrections (though even that bothers some people; you can't make everyone happy).