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Aeolun 2 days ago

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).