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Using "she" instead of "he" is neither incorrect English nor does it cripple the language.

I'm not going to spoon-feed you in a vain attempt to get a seat at the table for a discussion you clearly don't want to have.

Please investigate unconscious bias for yourself.



Please refrain from overly aggressive responses like this. Hint: if you believe in something, it doesn’t automatically make it right.


You're too quick to make assumptions about people who speak with you. English grammar, for example, does not have any facilities to create gender-neutral pronouns for every single noun (only for some). It's just a fact whether we like it or not. German, for instance, is more flexible in this regard. But languages evolve over centuries, and changes to grammar cannot be organically introduced to suit a new thinking on social life (however reasonable it is).




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