Good that is an actual argument instead of just assuming that what 5 or 10% or 20% of the actual viewership will get are offended by standard language use enough for this to be worth spending effort to rerecord the video.
If using gendered pronouns messes with actual rationality, then we should totally do away with them.
There are extremely-low-cost ways to avoid male-gendered-defaults—everything from alternating pronouns to repeating the antecedent to using “they” as a singular. At almost no cost, and with potentially significant upside, it’s an easy win. Easy wins are good.
Good that is an actual argument instead of just assuming that what 5 or 10% or 20% of the actual viewership will get are offended by standard language use enough for this to be worth spending effort to rerecord the video.
If using gendered pronouns messes with actual rationality, then we should totally do away with them.
There are extremely-low-cost ways to avoid male-gendered-defaults—everything from alternating pronouns to repeating the antecedent to using “they” as a singular. At almost no cost, and with potentially significant upside, it’s an easy win. Easy wins are good.