Post #1679485
2026-01-14 00:43 UTC
The thing that really grinds my gears is the excessive use of "he/she". Workplace training is a regular offender for this. Just use the word "they" FFS, it's sat right there on the shelf for you.
Or don't, just go with "he" or "she", this fictional person in your 'case study' isn't real, they don't give a shit.
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@Meron35@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 05:00
Some academic fields a decade or two ago went through a phase where they intentionally used "she" for all pronouns. The idea was because academia was so male dominated, even a neutral pronoun would still make people inagine a male lab worker, statistician, etc when reading. Intentionally using "she" was thought to force people to imagine a woman and normalise that image.