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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago*

Because the fictious person stealing your laptop and drilling through your disk to erase it identifies as male. I have a whole backstory worked out if you are interested...

Or because it doesn't matter at all and two letters were simply the shortest.

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[–] KernelTale@programming.dev 3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

There can be multiple reasons:

Commenter just had a slip up and thought of it as a masculine profession which is fine. It does happen.
Commenter's first language is not English. Czech for example doesn't use they/them for a single person unless it is neo-pronouns. So instead we just gender based on word of a profession, which is 99% of the time masculine. Only exception that comes to mind is a nurse which translates to homonym of sister. There are also feminine suffixes for jobs but that is only used if you know that the person who works it uses feminine pronouns or if the field is heavily dominated by women but then it is a prejudice.

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[–] starsoaked_lily@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago* (2 children)

how would you suggest to point this out to someone given what you said? (are you ok with people referring to all teachers as she or her since most teachers are women? seems like that would be annoying for men who teach)

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[–] KernelTale@programming.dev 1 point 2 hours ago

In my example I've said that would be a prejudice. It is still more common to talk about a teacher as a man unless their pronouns are known, but they don't give a fuck when it happens. I got called by both feminine and masculine pronouns in legal paperwork; it's not a big deal and that comes from someone with a social gender dysphoria.

Name, next referred to only as person. And then feminine suffixes in upcoming legal fluff, because person is always feminine. Or a prosecutor and the rest is instead masculine. It is truly at bottom of a barrel of social problems and would require an eradication of multiple languages as they/them becomes used around B2 level of english and even then it slips, because mother tongue is a mother tongue.

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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yes, I am in fact okay with refering to every teacher as he, because that's what grammar in my native language demands ("Lehrer, der - masc."). I will also happily refer to every guard as she, because –again– grammar ("Wache, die - fem.).

Genus != sexus != gender... One is grammar, one is biology, one is identity. Overlaps are purely coincidental. I don't understand why especially English speakers can't get the concept. I mean sure, they dumbed down their grammar so much that they lost the destinction, but even unrelated to language they seem to develop an insane fetish for conflating sexus and gender somehow. For example if you need to add "biological" before "gender" for your expression to make sense, that should be a hint that you are actually talking bout different things.

Fun fact: When English tried to move away from gender specific words and towards generic ones (all being actors, instead of speaking about actors and actresses), other languages did the exact opposite. Because when you language's grammar has all nouns (arbitrarily) gendered, actresses and actors is a step forward from the generic actor (which often is male my grammatical definition). At least that was the theory in both cases. Two languages, two exactly opposite reactions to same fact. Why doesn't it make any sense? Because it's a fucking narrative to keep some culture war bullshit going. Language isn't sexist. The Sexism filtering your words because they reach your brain is.