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Assuming the gender of current, historical and deceased people.

  • 10-05-2022 5:43pm
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    Dollar Thief
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    In almost all literature;

    Jesus is referred to as he.

    Hitler is referred to as he.

    Cleopatra is referred to as she.

    Gengis Khan is referred to as he.

    Joan of Arc is referred to as she.


    There is absolutely no one alive today who would have been alive when the aforementioned people were walking the earth, save the second one, and even those people are dwindling.

    Why is it assumed that Cleopatra was a she or Jesus was a he? We were never explicitly told.

    I’d even ask the same of currently living people. Unless, for example, George Bush has explicitly declared his pronouns, should his Wikipedia article and all literature referring to him, refer to him as “they”?

    Post edited by Ten of Swords on


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