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I hate the phrase "he or she" in academic texts. Like come on, we have a pronoun for when someone's gender is unknown or unspecified, its they. You don't need to do "he or she" at all. Its just worse than "they" in every way.
Now if your gender is "he or she", then that's a lot cooler
i have never understood why people struggle so much with saying 'people' instead of 'men and women'. it's literally less words
Luckily "they" is now standard in APA guidelines, but yeah "he or she" is also just so clunky, nvm the gender angle.
Just last semester I had one book from 2013 that used "he or she", and a book from a few years back explicitly instructing the reader to use " singular they" and m/f/x
It's so jarring and clunky too, it sounds awful. Somehow even worse is "he/she", which I've seen a handful of times.
thank you
This post was brought to you by my ADHD. I desperately needed to stop reading an academic text and this was the thing that made me stop. Anyway now I have a lecture that I haven't done the reading for in ten minutes, this is fun so much fun
i have had the exact same complaint so many times u aint alone