[justinjlynn]

> his mind is re-trained to expect boredom rather than drama

> he will find a new person to provide drama and he will find himself drawn to you less and less often

> he can’t stand boredom

Unnecessarily gendered language is jarring for the reader and also, (possibly) unintentionally, sexist. The singular they/them/their is generally acceptable to use in cases such as these.

[randomchars]

Should all previous content be rewritten on the internet to be PC? This is from 2012, and as far as I've noticed, this gender neutral thingy started coming up a few years after that.

[toxik]

In the same way that you wouldn't quote somebody on the whimsical nature of the feeble woman, you shouldn't propagate ideas that paint men as perpetrators.

In 2012, this was already well-known. The language is jarring and sexist for no apparent reason. It is not undue revisionism.

[winkeltripel]

> It is not undue revisionism.

Any level of revisionism is undue.

[DagAgren]

Perpetrators are most often men, though. That's not good, no! But you do not fix that problem by pretending it does not exist.

The point of not using gendered language is to compensate for discrimination, not to hide problems.

[Hnrobert42]

I disagree. I did not find it jarring nor did I perceive it as sexist.

[zadokshi]

Perhaps we need a browser plugin for people to detect when ‘he’ is being used as the default gender and convert it?

‘He’ worked as the default pronoun for a long time in many languages all over the world. (And still does in many languages) I find it curious how many people can be sold into the idea that a language can be considered sexist.

[leshenka]

> browser plugin

They exist. I'm not sure that they can de-gender language, but they can swap word A for word B

[hnuser123456]

It's not that English is sexist, it's that the passage is sexist. Using "they" as gender neutral has been around for decades.

[DagAgren]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_narcissism

[oska]

I noticed the same thing. Maybe I should have got a quote from elsewhere as it's not particularly well written. Nevertheless, it still gets the concept across.

[greendestiny_re]

I didn't notice the gender at all.

[corobo]

Yeah, sounds good.