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Discussion on: Why I'm Not One of the Guys

 
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John Colagioia (he/him)

Are you saying that I hallucinated the paragraph with this?

It seems to me that either, descriptively, "guys" can change to become gender neutral if people use it that way and "chairman" should change because it became gender specific through use; or, prescriptively, "guys" is gender specific because it is defined that way and "chairman" is gender neutral because it was defined that way.

Because if I did, my clipboard did, too...

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Jay Jeckel

No, you didn't hallucinate the paragraph's existence, but if you think it says "we shouldn't worry about inclusive language, because the generations before us didn't worry about inclusive language", then you might be suffering from hallucinations since it doesn't say any such thing.