English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense - eviltoast
  • jeremyparker@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    It’s not a coincidence, it’s systemic sexism. If you use sexism as your guiding principle when if comes to generated nouns, in almost every language that has them, you’ll be right most of the time.