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For questions about using gendered words or phrases in English.
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Can "Am I the bad guy here?" be said by a girl?
Bad guy is an idiom most common in film but used for any fiction to describe the villain of any sex of a story. "In 101 Dalmations, the bad guy is called Cruella de Vil. In Duel, the bad guy is the …
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Using "her" to refer to the word "child"
A good reference for the issue is The Nonsexist Word Finder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage, Rosalie Maggio, Beacon Press (1989). ISBN 0807060011. … In anaphoric reference to a singular noun or pronoun of undetermined gender. Cf. she pron.1 2b. …
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Use of "she" for a general person in a scientifical paper
This and many related issues are covered very well in The Nonsexist Word Finder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage, Rosalie Maggio, Beacon Press (1989). ISBN 0807060011.
Should you do the same? … First: it's worth noting that gender-mismatch errors are extremely confusing to native English speakers. …
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