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0 pointsunethical_ban8y ago0 comments

Serious question: Why does it matter? The masculine singular has been used through most history and in modern times it is as acceptable to use the feminine singular as a "general case" pronoun. His specific example was obviously about an actual, specific man.

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prepend8y ago

I think it matters as much a clear writing and proper grammar matters.

I don’t think it matters from a content perspective, but is a bit more confusing so I had to spend a few seconds thinking about it.

I had a similar thought as OP as to whether this was significant.

But it wasn’t a big enough deal for me to comment as I figured it out, reach much the same conclusion as you did.

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