Why do writers make such an effort to distribute "her" and "his" and similar pronouns equally between the sexes? Don't females get more than their fair share when we call countries and boats etc. by female pronouns?

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Anonymous Tue May 15 14:49:19 2012 No.2642130 [DELETED]

Why do writers make such an effort to distribute "her" and "his" and similar pronouns equally between the sexes? Don't females get more than their fair share when we call countries and boats etc. by female pronouns?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 15 14:54:19 2012 No.2642133 Finnish unisex pronouns master race reporting in.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 15 15:15:19 2012 No.2642171 Some authors don't even divvy the pronouns up. They just use the feminine throughout. It's like affirmative action for pronouns.

>>	≦(￣^￣)≧ !!x+mnmrU0sW+ Tue May 15 15:24:18 2012 No.2642198 Because English is a god damn awful language in this regard.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 15 15:24:19 2012 No.2642195 I prefer it when they just use "they" but it's not always appropriate.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 15 15:26:18 2012 No.2642205 >>2642198 this we ain't got no pronoun what means "him, her, and/or it"

>>	≦(￣^￣)≧ !!x+mnmrU0sW+ Tue May 15 15:28:19 2012 No.2642211 >>2642205 They. We're just too afraid to use it like that because some prescriptivist told us it was wrong.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 15 15:31:18 2012 No.2642220 >>2642211 just another of the many suggestions that have been made, and fall short what was the one the dinosaur comics guy suggested? "xhe"? whatever it was, i say we should go with that

>>	Benny Profane !!gqdihmBfv+n Tue May 15 22:05:27 2012 No.2642987 >countries and boats lol'ed heartily. patriarchy.

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