<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello Friends,<div><br></div><div>I’m slightly confused by this commit: <a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=989fc2c61cb3c5376bd8bff6b2cfba9e4d740ffc">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=989fc2c61cb3c5376bd8bff6b2cfba9e4d740ffc</a>. The use of their/they/them is correct as a singular</div><div>gender neutral pronoun in English[1]. I think this change so that the language to reads “his” is worse. </div><div>I think this because readers that do not identify as being a man may find that the language is exclusionary.</div><div><br></div><div>I’m new to the ways of systemd so, if you genuinely believe this is better in the systemd context, I’d</div><div>love to hear an explanation of why this change was made. I’m just trying to understand :)</div><div><br></div><div>[1] - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>—</div><div>Sam Phippen</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>