Re: Abolish antisexism rules! Long live the equivalence of people!
john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
>Or do as Feynman did in his textbooks: randomly switch back and forth
>between 'he' and 'she'
Remind me never to read Feynman. Such writing is bad English; it reads
awkwardly. If you see "she" in a text, you expect that pronoun to refer
to a specific woman who has been mentioned previously, or to a member
of the whole class of women, ships or female animals. "He" is the only
pronoun proper to use for a general reference.
Politically correct speech or writing just makes its author look foolish.
If you don't like this, learn Finnish, as Antti-Juhani said.
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