[steveklabnik]

It's quite disrespectful to call someone a 'he' when they are obviously a 'she.' This is only vaguely related to the recent discussion about 'they' for people of indeterminate gender.

It's also quite jarring to read; I was confused if the OP was speaking of someone else. People often point out grammar or factual mistakes, I see your parent as doing no different.

[revasm]

I was under the impression that banal grammar corrections are frowned upon here on HN, because they do nothing to further the topic or encourage interesting discussion. It's one of the reasons why Reddit is so tedious.

[phaer]

They point is not so much a correction of grammar, but a correction of the wrong implicit assumption that a person who writes about osdev has to be male. Its no drama if it happens once, but as said in this thread it happened several times in the last few days. And if it happens that often it effectively makes women in this field invisible, especially as role models for the next generation(s).

EDIT: And it goes a bit further. The sole reason why we are having this discussion is because the author explicitly used a female name and her writings still got perceived as those of a male author. If there no name or just a generic nick, most people in here - myself probably included - would have assumed its a male by default.

[steveklabnik]

Yeah, I mean, I downvote someone if they say "lol grammer stfu", but if it's part of a larger post, I don't think it's a bad thing.

I guess I see a blatant mis-gendering as not 'banal.'

[pjc50]

It's not a grammar correction, but a factual one, as if someone were misquoting the original article.