On Fri, Jun 11 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:
The latest solution looking for a problem [1] is to use the actively
debated among linguists singular "they" [2].
Leaving aside the linguistic intricacies that not all singular "they" are
equal [3], and the overwhelming sentiment that these kinds of political
discussions don't provide value for this community [4], the "issue" can
be easily solved by simply using different wording.
- The reviewer herself
+ The reviewers themselves
Problem solved.
Cheers.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.975.git.1623085069.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/ (local)
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/01/singular-their-affront-good-writing/319329/
[3] https://ahdictionary.tumblr.com/post/147597257733/updated-usage-note-they
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/git/87wnrooa17.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/ (local)
Felipe Contreras (2):
doc: avoid using the gender of other people
comments: avoid using the gender of our users
This looks good to me, especially the reduction in verbosity in hunks
like:
- * parameters to the callback, `strbuf_expand()` passes a context pointer,
- * which can be used by the programmer of the callback as she sees fit.
+ * parameters to the callback, `strbuf_expand()` passes a context
+ * pointer with any kind of data.
The comment gives you the same information, but now it takes a shorter
time to read it.