Is this a sign of males being the superior?
When you read or going down a list when it comes down to gender you always see HE/SHE or are you MALE or Female,
2007-02-28 11:45:03 · 10 answers · asked by Azucena V 1 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I see "s/he" just as often. Perhaps you live in a particularly sexist area.
Point this out to people if you want to change things.
2007-02-28 11:48:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure that I understand your question. When I see "he/she" it is usually used in a context where the author is not aware of the gender of the person he(she) is speaking of and opts for using both pronouns. Thus, "he/she" is being used as a single androgenous pronoun refering to a person. I usually see this in things like guidelines, policies, proceedures, that sort of thing. I think that the use of such invented pronouns as "he/she" or "s/he", are designed to be more politically correct, not signs of superiority. The use of a pronoun could be avoided all together, I suppose, but I would think that would make for some repititous, if not awkward wording.
2007-02-28 19:58:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Males being superior...lol...to what? No, plain and simple, just more sexism, what else?
Bottom line, we are a society that goes by majority, so women are the majority in the world. Therefore, I say we start owing that and changing things like this.
2007-02-28 22:33:18 · answer #3 · answered by MadforMAC 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Come pn! This is why some men think feminists are just annoying. I personally think that putting "he/she" or "s/he" or "he or she" is just plain annoying and is a waste of time! There are better things to do that worry about that, really!
2007-03-02 15:46:27 · answer #4 · answered by Offkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're just paranoid.
Since English has no gender-neutral pronouns that we can use without it being incredibly awkward, one of them needs to go first.
2007-02-28 22:32:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
What is the problem? You want it to be She/He? Isn't that sexist too? It is just that way because it has always been that way. Does it really matter anyway?
2007-02-28 20:04:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It saves a few keystrokes. A better way to do is: "s/he". That saves even more keystrokes. Crappy english, though.
2007-02-28 19:59:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I prefer being considered a person myself.
2007-03-01 03:16:58 · answer #8 · answered by Sal D 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
alphabetically he comes before she...
i assume u are complaining that the he comes first! (wow, dont u have better things to complain about!)
2007-02-28 20:02:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
so u can choose which one u are.
2007-02-28 21:25:39 · answer #10 · answered by Jon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋