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by y4mi 2921 days ago
Because it's cumbersome to write comments that don't assume anything but still convey something.

single sentences suddenly become whole paragraphs and just for the tiny off-chance of him being homosexual.

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Just use "they" or "she/he" instead of "she"...

The typing isn't hard, the hard part is keeping yourself from making assumptions about who people like to date. There's much more than a "tiny off-chance" that people are queer, at least where I'm from (and probably at Intel HQ too).

I don't think so. Where do you get your numbers?

I'm not discriminating anyone when I assume the majority view on things as long as I stop doing it to an individual who tells me they are part of an minority.