Consider Pronouns Carefully
I didn’t think this anomaly could happen twice in one day, but it just did:
A user reports an article in our dating category as being suspect because the male author makes a statement such as “my husband and I did this or that, etc.”.
Two hours later, I’m reading one of the marriage articles randomly and I found a female author making a statement about “my wife always does this or that, etc.”.
This isn’t an example of an expert author choosing their pronouns wrongly; but rather careless article submission by a most likely non-original article writer. ie: trust & confidence destroyer. Both of these accounts were suspended.
The article writing lesson: If you’re hiring a ghost writer or if your spouse/significant other is writing articles for you, be certain to be gender-congruent with your pronouns. You’d be surprised how efficient the marketplace is at quickly identifying this blunder.
I smiled reading this blog entry. My daughter is an excellent proofer, and has caught this type of error when I’ve sent her what I thought was a great blog entry. She’ll come back and say “mom didn’t you think it was wierd the blog belongs to Julie and she’s talking about her wife?”
Audrey :)
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