At the risk of sounding cynical, "we're" not past premeditated acquaintance rape (the most common kind of rape), the gender pay gap and glass ceiling in employment, gender-essentialist stereotyping, domestic violence with a significant gender skew, and transphobia...
So why would "we" be past sexism?
(This is not to shut down your request for gender-neutral language, mind! It just seems like the tip of the iceberg where sexism is concerned.)
I just meant the Less Wrong community ought to hold itself to higher standards then the general public.
By singularity I mean a recursive self-improving intelligence created by man that will help us solve the worlds problems.
please explain the downvotes.. sorry I didn't write an essay or link to lots of in-jokes about the sky being green. It's just a simple question so I didn't want to embellish it.