[elohesra]

You know what I find far, far more offensive than someone using gendered pronouns? The kind of smug, pandering post that deliberately strives for gender neutrality through tortuous 'he/she' verbosity.

I happen to think that most women are probably clever enough to work out that just because a writer has used a particular gendered pronoun, it doesn't mean that the writer's point applies specifically to that gender. Furthermore, literally none of the women I've known have ever complained about gender pronouns; such nitpicking seems to be the exclusive domain of gender-political activists and HN commenters.

[thenmar]

I don't think it's an unreasonable thing to point out. Let's not pretend that there are no problems with sexism in tech. While this may or may not be a good example, literature normalizing that programming is a "boy's club" contributes to the problem that programming is perceived as exactly that - a boy's club.

[jeorgun]

I agree--- if any author were to use `he/she' consistently, I'd probably find their writing quite annoying. Still, that hardly means they'd have no other ways of being gender-neutral ;)

[cma]

You mean like 50% of the time using "she/he"?