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[Anonymous No.18890073]

>As for generic "man" and "he", I certainly disliked those usages at that
time, and I tried to avoid them whenever I could (or rather, whenever it was
easy), but on the other hand I wasn't particularly concerned about cleansing
my prose of every last one of them, and as a consequence the book's pages
are also marred, here and there, by that more obvious, more explicit form
of sexism. Today, I cringe whenever I come across sentences in GEB that
talk about the reader as "he", or that casually speak of "mankind" as if
humanity were some huge abstract guy. One lives and learns, I guess.
dropped.

[Anonymous No.18890085]

some prime schizoposting here

get off ur meds bro

[Anonymous No.18890133]

>>18890073
You can really tell how deeply he was swept up into prog intelligentsia culture between the time of the first edition and that preface.

[Anonymous No.18890331]

>>18890133
Many such cases. SAD.

[Anonymous No.18890396]

I purposefully speak of "man" and "mankind" and refer to hypothetical "he"s when I write, even to the point of giving genders to variables. Fuck this "they" shit. First in the '90s it was "he/her", then they insisted that the default be female to be radically progressive, now they insist on "they" (a word usually reserved for plurals) to avoid hurting the feelings of trannies et. al.--no ironically "he/her" would trigger that fuck out of one of these faggots, just as I assume "ladies and gentleman" does to these freaks.
These were the steps we took to the long slippery slope of eating the bugs, living in pods, and worshiping the anti-Christ. Fuck you, you cannot control my language, I am my own man. Fuck you and your stupid subversions. I will my own.

[Anonymous No.18890539]

>>18890073
Best of luck on making it to page 1 of your next book

[Anonymous No.18890602]

>>18890539
thanks, appreciate it

[Anonymous No.18890685]

>>18890073
>can't greentext properly
crap post