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I think he misinterpreted it as a complaint made on political grounds, when it seems to have been made on the grounds of perfectionism.

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Not really perfectionism just grammar

I think the fact that using a neuter pronoun is so charged that we can’t even speak or write our language correctly is insane.

I’ve written thousands of technical documents, if you are referring to a generic operator / user / whatever the correct term to use is “they.” That’s how you say “the person that I’m referring to that I don’t know anything about”

There was a brief madness in the 90s when fucking morons used “he/she” for absolutely no reason.

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Honestly I don’t even care when humankind is referred to as ‘Man’. People don’t (want to) get that in this context it is meant inclusively to refer to all humans, and not just physically men. It’s ‘man’ for historical reasons and its interpretation should change with time just like with that of eg. the constitution.

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