[systemd-devel] Pronoun confusion

[Sam Phippen]

Hello Friends,

I’m slightly confused by this commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=989fc2c61cb3c5376bd8bff6b2cfba9e4d740ffc. The use of their/they/them is correct as a singular
gender neutral pronoun in English[1]. I think this change so that the language to reads “his” is worse. 
I think this because readers that do not identify as being a man may find that the language is exclusionary.

I’m new to the ways of systemd so, if you genuinely believe this is better in the systemd context, I’d
love to hear an explanation of why this change was made. I’m just trying to understand :)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Thanks
—
Sam Phippen


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