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Are there any pieces anywhere about comment gendering being an issue to female programmers? (My short googling failed me)

• astrodust 13y ago
  It's not an "issue" so much as a pervasive problem. Presuming default-male is bad form, and it has a subtle excluding effect. Replacing "him" with "the user" might seem inconsequential, but it's a tiny step in the right direction. A few million more like that and we'll be getting somewhere.