If it was ‘he’ nobody would have questioned it, which kinds gives me pause for thought.
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TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You saved one life twice. But is there any significance to this being ‘her’ rather than ‘they’? Did you have a specific person in mind?
rbos@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
It would have bothered me to the same degree, I don’t know about you. I haven’t seen anyone on Lemmy using ‘he’ as a ‘gender neutral’ pronoun yet, but I assure you I would correct it just as I regularly do in real life.
rbos@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I try to notice it but often fail.
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
In some languages (i.e., italian and spanish), “person” is a feminine word (the word itself has ha gender, grammatically). Maybe OP isn’t a native english speaker and they’re just translating literally their thought.