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I noticed an interesting gender stereotype.

"Want to help someone out? She will probably use a Qwerty layout."

I'm not perfect and guilty as well mistakenly defaulting to a user on the internet as a male. Let's try to welcome both genders equally :)



Some people are of the school that the term 'she' should be used by default, switching from the traditional assumption that people are male. I personally prefer 'they' but some people seem to take offence/feel it's incorrect to do so. There's quite a tradition in CS writing where people being spoken about are female (can't think of any exact references off the top of my head though).




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