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by Hansenq 4115 days ago
"In the end, a CEO has got to know her limitations."

I love how he switches between gendered pronouns in this article, and ends with a female one.

2 comments

Really, a complaint about somebody going through the effort of avoiding these complaints?
I don't think they were being tongue-in-cheek.
I originally wasn't going to say anything... but I will say that it did strike me as an odd thing to do.
It isn't very important I suppose, but the switching did interrupt my train of thought.

It is a shame we can't use "it" or another pronoun to avoid the issue entirely. They/their sometimes works but feels wrong when talking about a person in singular.