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It obviously wasn't intentional. Why do you speak with much violence?

"Violence"? (a) that's not verbal violence and (b) we're in the context of Quake, which is not exactly a nonviolent activity

Because it's important for us to root out sexism where we find it, for the same reasons we pull up any obnoxious weed. The fact it wasn't intentional makes it all the more obnoxious.

Sexism... by replacing "girl" with "boy"? Equally sexist.

By replacing "boy/girl" with "child"? Ageism.

By replacing boy/girl/child with "person"? Humanism.

Yes I can go on.

> By replacing boy/girl/child with "person"? Humanism.

Obviously idiotic.

Yes. Sexism is terrible and must be eridacated. I thank you for your hard work making the world a better place (for yourself), and suggest the following to make sexists even easier to root out:

Make all sexists sew a yellow male-sign onto their clothing.

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