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vdqtp3today at 1:52 AM1 replyview on HN

> If I'm writing an email or a chat message, I will typically have to use a pronoun.

It's not that hard to just avoid it. I send emails to a lot of people I haven't spoken to and don't know their gender, so I write gender-neutral emails.


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array_key_firsttoday at 6:02 AM

Sure, but why would I go out of my way to use gender neutral pronouns like "they" when they can just tell me their preferred pronouns?

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