gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 days agoIf you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save?message-squaremessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up1100arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up191arrow-down1message-squareIf you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save?gezero@lemmy.bowyerhub.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 5 days agomessage-square27linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoIf it was ‘he’ nobody would have questioned it, which kinds gives me pause for thought.
minus-squareTheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoIt 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.
minus-squareRob Bos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoI try to notice it but often fail.
If it was ‘he’ nobody would have questioned it, which kinds gives me pause for thought.
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.
I try to notice it but often fail.