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I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're a second language speaker where "user" is a masculine noun, but other genders exist lol. I encourage you to use "themselves" instead.
Akchually, since we're being annoyingly corrective, shouldn't it be "themself"?
OR is it able-ist to assume the commentor does not express multiple personalities?
Yeah I guess I reordered it "Just let the user decide themselves..." in my head.
As I guessed the commenter was a German speaker. This is a very common occurrence and not something malicious (check like every boardgame from Germany referring to "the player" as "he"), just lost in translation.
Never meant to be annoying or holier-than-thou, people can genuinely misunderstand that it's some sexist remark, and so I pointed it out. Just said it so the commenter hopefully isn't misunderstood in the future.
So, if you feel that's some woke-ass snowflake nonsense, be my guest lol
On the internet whoever you're conversing with is male unless explicitly stated. It really really does not matter since it's all just randos on the internet anyway. Please note the large number of down votes you got for actually caring.
"OH mY gOd, aRE yoU a GiRL???" In a game lobby.
Same vibes.
Just reiterating, that the original poster was German as I suspected, and pointing it out might spare them being misunderstood in the future. I have no regrets.
Lol... Alright take the upvote.
A bit facetious innit
Live and let live
Yea okay. In German you mostly use the masculine noun
Yeah that's what I guessed! Alles gut :)