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NancyLebovitz comments on Call for Anonymous Narratives by LW Women and Question Proposals (AMA) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 11 September 2012 12:24:06PM 4 points [-]

In general, I prefer "women". If it's a far view discussion, then "females" is ok with me as long as it's paralleled by "males". I don't like "girls" being used to refer to adult women.

I use the singular "they". I don't mind invented pronouns. I get annoyed at male pronouns used to refer to people in general and still get startled at female pronouns used to refer to people in general.