Awkward.
Source: https://medium.com/@akosma/...

I'll bet the response was something like, "If you not guy, what you do outside kitchen! You husband know you on Internet unsupervise?"

Stuff like this makes me wish that English had a better word for addressing a specific person of unknown gender. Individual is fine but it does not flow well in a sentence.

For that matter I wish we had a word to refer to a large group of mixed gender people. At the moment people tend to just use "you guys" as a catch all. Ugh.

Its not really infuriating for the pronouns so much as the fact that the recruiter didn't even know before contacting. Like geez.

Join the team as one man army...

What kind of "team" would that be?

@DustInCompetent the $8 an hour kind.
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@jwmorse In sweden, when we address people without involving gender we simply call them "hen", which is a mix of both genders. This drives some people crazy, claiming somekind of feminist conspiracy. I think its highly useful!

@monolithicblob Which unfortunately doesn't mean chicken.

"dear sir and/or madam.." :P

@jwmorse Then "ze" is the word for you! Seriously, look it up :D

WOW! that's a bummer. No attention to detail and that's his job. *sigh*

@jwmorse here in the South we just use "y'all". Seems to cover both/all options pretty well.

@Grundeir true. Just thought it ironic/funny that the Southern part of the USA (stereotype warning) got the collective gender pronoun correct. ;)

@monolithicblob ugh that is awesome. hen, instead of han or hon. I doubt that would work in USA B/C hen refers to a female chicken.

I am not sure why people get bent out of shape about supposed feminist plots, it's just a word attempting to be more specific to the group being addressed.

@jwmorse As I commented above, we already have "ze" as an ungendered term, it's just not widely used yet