I completely hate it when nothing but the male pronoun gets used all the time.
Me, too.
Douglas Hofstadter has a really great essay on this in one of the prefaces to a later edition of Gödel, Escher, Bach. It relates his gradual understanding of why a blanket use of the male pronoun is problematic, even with a disclaimer beforehand, and discusses the matter quite well.
That was the only part of the book I read before I had to return it, though, so I don't know how he resolved it. :)
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Re: hokaayyy....
Date: 2005-11-17 04:44 am (UTC)Me, too.
Douglas Hofstadter has a really great essay on this in one of the prefaces to a later edition of Gödel, Escher, Bach. It relates his gradual understanding of why a blanket use of the male pronoun is problematic, even with a disclaimer beforehand, and discusses the matter quite well.
That was the only part of the book I read before I had to return it, though, so I don't know how he resolved it. :)