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[Anonymous No.14620713]

>Author uses "her" and "she" when talking about a hypothetical person for an analogy

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.14620719]

Fuck you, nippleman

[Anonymous No.14620724]

Do any of you losers ever get sick and tired of posting this tired old misogyny garbage? Have you ever considered going outside and actually meeting a womahahahah just kidding I hate women.

[Anonymous No.14620732]

Reading this right now and he does it everytime.

[Anonymous No.14620746]

>>14620719
this,
god is a woman because men have nipples.

[Anonymous No.14620758]

>>14620713
Grow up

[Anonymous No.14620775]

>>14620758
No.

[Anonymous No.14620909]

>>14620713
Revolting. Slacktivism at its worse. The He is a generic He and the world is no closer to the feminist ideal by arbitrarily throwing She in, as if they were equivalent (they're not). It's also worth noting that entities such as boats, vehicles, and nature tend to get the honorific She. There's no need to change this just as there's no need to correct the generic He which obviously doesn't have any of the gendered implications that our modern academic class would vapidly read into it.

[Anonymous No.14620914]

>>14620713
> being this easy to trigger

[cunt No.14620930]

>>14620713
I agree, the author should use, they/them/one/ones self

[Anonymous No.14620950]

>>14620724
>misogyny
It's ahistorical misandrist language. 'He' used generically is not the same as gendered he. 'She' isn't used generically but with the intention of explicitly gendering language.

[Anonymous No.14620968]

>>14620713
The horror, truly masculinity hasn't faced an attack of the same magnitude since The Gillette Ad

[Anonymous No.14621004]

>>14620950
See OE pronouns. Animate/inanimate distinction didn't exist. So 'its' would be 'his' up until late Middle English and even later in some dialects. This is very clearly an inanimate ungendered today, as it was for that use then. Same with 'man' and such, which just means human but when used contrastively can distinguish male-female. The idea that they exclude or sideline women is a contemporary fiction. It's just harder to maintain separate pronouns. I'm sure in some dialects the feminine ones merged into the others too as they would only be used when referring to a woman specifically. Most of the time, even with animate use, the gender is not known (especially outside of a more interpersonal context like clannish tribal societies Germanics once had). Hence our 'problem' here was naturally fixed by ambiguating gender over a thousand years past.

[Anonymous No.14621010]

>>14620746
Holy fuck that actually makes sense

[Anonymous No.14621012]

>>14620713
it's made rpg rulebooks these days unreadable

[Anonymous No.14621064]

If I notice him/her pronouns in an analogy made by those of the respective sex, I shrug it off. If, however, they are using pronouns utilized by the opposing sex (particularly in the case of she/her), than an instant red flag is drawn. While the use of masculine pronouns is sources from historical bias, the idea of using feminine pronouns is a recent invention. The point is to acclimate the audience such that they will not notice a distinction. This means, and especially in more abstract works, they prioritize politics over whichever truth they are trying to reach. I find this demeaning to their goal. Use gender neutral pronouns if you are trying to reach a universal audience.

[Anonymous No.14621074]

>>14621010
Men have nipples, because, before birth, they were all female.

[Anonymous No.14621079]

>>14621064
>gender neutral

no such thing you fucking centrist pig.

[Anonymous No.14621085]

>they

[Anonymous No.14621087]

>>14621010
Woman: big breasts, small penis
Man: small breasts, big penis
We're the yin and the yang, opposites but with a small piece of the other in us too.

[Anonymous No.14621117]

>>14621079
'He' is gender neutral

[Anonymous No.14621146]

The only sin here is a man using she. I can tolerate women self referencing if they want to, but a man using she is without a doubt serving some master.

[Anonymous No.14621171]

>>14621146
>>14621064
Like I said, it was in a John Mearsheimer book I noticed this.

[JN !!vXXhA/qzhjm No.14621319]

>>14620713
Alternating male & female pronouns is worse

Imagine how bad it would be if we were speaking a language that had different pronouns for different colors

[Anonymous No.14621514]

>>14621087
>woman
>small penis
anon..

[Anonymous No.14621517]

>>14620713
NOOOOOO YOU HAVE TO USE "HE" STOP USING "SHE" I DONT LIKE IT STOOOOOOOOOOOOP

[Anonymous No.14621567]

>>14621517
Good argument.
You don't use 'she' because it violates hundreds of years of convention and it's extremely distracting to the reader. Even if the reader is a supporter of using the feminine for generics, every time he sees it he thinks, "oh look the author used 'she'," taking his mind away from whatever he was reading.

[Anonymous No.14621627]

>>14621514
t. never found the clit.

[Anonymous No.14621718]

>>14620713
What if they are describing actions that a woman is more likely to do

[Anonymous No.14621760]

>>14621146
>>14621171
Mearsheimer is opposed to neoliberalism, so I don’t think he’s doing this out of any appeal to a higher power or the “work” crowd.

Maybe it was publisher pressure?

[Anonymous No.14621762]

>>14621718
Like what? Going to hell for murdering their own children?

[Anonymous No.14621774]

Welcome to 1970

[Anonymous No.14621956]

>>14621760
It's just a learned thing among academics from the latter part of the 20th century. Like, it's always jarring to me, but it's not like the worst thing.

[Anonymous No.14621967]

>>14621956
>but it's not like the worst thing.
The worst thing is using CE and BCE.

[Anonymous No.14622129]

>>14621967
Fucking atheist scum academics.

[Anonymous No.14622137]

>>14622129
>I'll use the date system based around Christ's birth but I'll use a different name so that makes it completely different. I am very smart ;)

[Anonymous No.14622138]

>>14621967
It's honestly just petty. I mean CE and BCE still make you think 'what happened 2000 years ago, oh right Jesus'

[Anonymous No.14622144]

>>14622138
When I hear the term "current era," the first thing that springs to mind is ancient Rome. /s

[Anonymous No.14622264]

>>14622144
It's actually "common era"

[Anonymous No.14623377]

>>14621967
I'm atheist and I hate this shit

AD and BC is soul CE and BCE is soulless

[Anonymous No.14623479]

>>14621627
Fun fact: In hyenas, the female clitoris is actually way longer than the male penis

[Anonymous No.14623494]

>>14623479
Yes, everyone knows this reddit fact, go back.

[Anonymous No.14623497]

>>14620713
Maximum cringe.

[Anonymous No.14623519]

>>14621064

So attempting to push cultural Marxist ideology by means of some bastard version of the discredited Sapir Wharf hypothesis. Got it.

[Anonymous No.14623524]

>>14620713
yes fuck books that do this

[Anonymous No.14623537]

>>14620914
you say that like trannies don't literally kill themselves over this sort of thing

[Anonymous No.14624551]

>>14621117
He made man in his image, if his image is man then he is male. The "god is gender neutral" is just a femoid cope.

[Anonymous No.14624641]

>>14620724
hohoho you had me there for a second!

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.14624702]

>>14623377
We ought to swap this “Common Era” thing out with HE, the “Human Era”
Making this the year 12020 HE

[Anonymous No.14624713]

>>14620713
My abstract math text book literally did this in the forward. It’s written by a guy too

[Anonymous No.14624777]

>>14624551
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
From NASB
This verse leaves God's 'gender' ambiguous but of course God is understood to be 'male' for many reasons. Jesus Christ is literally a male human. God is referred to as Father on multiple occasions.

[Anonymous No.14624806]

>>14620713
>Author is a she

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.14626314]

>>14624777
>God has nipples and his chromosomes are deformed!