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Topic	I don't understand people that put He/Him or She/Her on their profiles
Bad_Mojo 08/09/20 7:48:28 PM #19:	mattymad posted... It's really nothing to look in to, it's not trying to be exclusive, sexist, something-phobic, etc. It's to take away ambiguity. By keeping it consistent throughout the manual 'he' always means the same thing. Examples will often use two players an Alice and a Bob, he and she, so again, it is clear what each person is doing and affected by, thanks to the separation of the pronoun. Yes, you could just say The Player constantly and a lot are worded that way now. But the use of He is nothing more than a way to keep a consistent idea in the reader's head as to whom is being talked about. No, they say things like his hand when it can be easily be their hand. --- https://i.imgtc.com/hQ5SuG6.gif https://i.imgtc.com/QrhAq36.gif https://i.imgtc.com/Yjov9DU.gif <cite>Bad_Mojo posted [p:943193033] in I don't un... [t:78902415]...</cite> <quote>mattymad posted... </cite> <quote>It's really nothing to look in to, it's not trying to be exclusive, sexist, something-phobic, etc. It's to take away ambiguity. By keeping it consistent throughout the manual 'he' always means the same thing. Examples will often use two players an Alice and a Bob, he and she, so again, it is clear what each person is doing and affected by, thanks to the separation of the pronoun. Yes, you could just say The Player constantly and a lot are worded that way now. But the use of He is nothing more than a way to keep a consistent idea in the reader's head as to whom is being talked about.</quote> No, they say things like his hand when it can be easily be their hand. --- https://i.imgtc.com/hQ5SuG6.gif https://i.imgtc.com/QrhAq36.gif https://i.imgtc.com/Yjov9DU.gif</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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