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In reply to the discussion: International woman's day [View all]

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
1. It's amazing how often I see generic text with only male pronouns.
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 07:12 PM
Mar 2014

Through my professional career I've worked in environments where we had to use either neutral phrasing or reference male and female pronouns in our writings except when we knew the preferred gender pronoun of a person.

Using male pronouns as generic these days is as dumb as using plural pronouns when referring to an individual.

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