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by zadokshi 2319 days ago
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.
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leshenka 2318 days ago
> browser plugin

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

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hnuser123456 2318 days ago
It's not that English is sexist, it's that the passage is sexist. Using "they" as gender neutral has been around for decades.
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