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by andrewmd5 1921 days ago
A lot of languages don’t have gendered pronouns. They/them is grammatically correct.
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elastolin 1920 days ago
We both know there's about a 100% chance that whoever reads gnu.org and writes a browser extension to block JavaScript on a specific site is a male, so "he/him" is better in this case.
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anoncake 1920 days ago
We all know that the chance is not 100%. Maybe it's 90%, maybe it's 99.9999%, it doesn't matter: It isn't 100% so he and him are plain wrong.

I do think neopronouns are silly when used like this but silly is better than wrong.

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