To cancel my Microsoft subscription

[user643289]

Not my picture.

Well I have wanted to cancel Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook for many reasons, but have been forced to keep them because it is at the moment easier.

I agree it is quite Anny having a tech company telling you how to think.

*annoy

That's just the grammar checker. It's trying to make your writing flow better. There's no underlying plot.

@PeriPeriMenosauce

That's just the grammar checker. It's trying to make your writing flow better. There's no underlying plot.

But it’s not. It’s telling the op she needs to be more inclusive.

but a gender neutral term would be more inclusive. If it was telling her she must be more inclusive it would have changed it without asking.

Why wouldn't you want to be more inclusive, anyway?

There are lots of Microsoft grammar checks that whilst may be factually correct (people would be more inclusive) are deeply unhelpful. I couldn't get upset about one....

You can probably ignore rule in somewhere in settings

Imagine having so little to worry about to think this is worth the effort of making a thread on.

@Brefugee

but a gender neutral term would be more inclusive. If it was telling her she must be more inclusive it would have changed it without asking.

Why wouldn't you want to be more inclusive, anyway?

I'm sorry, more inclusive to whom?

@UrAWizHarry

Imagine having so little to worry about to think this is worth the effort of making a thread on.

I have to say, feminism is a pretty serious issue for me.

Lucky you don't need to worry about it.

Switch off the auto-suggest. I hate trying to type emails and it's saying I can be more precise or whatever. No, I'm capable of typing my own email clearly thanks. Settings, switched off, done.

You're an adult (presumably), so you can cancel whatever subscriptions you like for whatever reasons you like. Why do you think that would be unreasonable?

I don't think this is coming from microsoft. I have the latest word & all suggestions etc and I've never seen anything like this. I also can't reproduce the effect if I type those sentences in my computer.

it could be grammarly or another similar add-on that claims to check language. But regular Word doesn't do this.

Yeah my Outlook always nags me to be more concise. I think "Fuck You!, I'll write in waffly incomprehensible language if I want". Perhaps I should switch it off.
I think I'd prefer the Terminator man vs machine future rather than a pissing grammar and writing style checker robot.

@parietal

I don't think this is coming from microsoft. I have the latest word & all suggestions etc and I've never seen anything like this. I also can't reproduce the effect if I type those sentences in my computer.

it could be grammarly or another similar add-on that claims to check language. But regular Word doesn't do this.

You probably have auto-suggest disabled. It is a standard Word functionality.

I work in A male dominated and the assumption is that most staff, especially as senior level are men.

I always correct content which uses ‘he’ as the default (when not talking about a specific person).
This would be a helpful prompt.

Can’t reproduce this in word, fake perhaps?

Here we go again

What could be a more inclusive way of describing adult humans than "men or women"?

www.howtogeek.com/677694/how-to-check-for-inclusive-language-in-microsoft-word/

THIS IS NOT STANDARD MICROSOFT WORD FUNCTIONALITY
It is controlled and enabled manually in your settings. The settings also can consider age bias, racial bias etc. Check the link above.

One assumes the feature is included for any people (or probably more typically, HR/marketing/comms functions at businesses etc) who are trying to consider inclusivity issues with their internal/external communications and marketing.

Whoever took the screenshot, has turned on these settings, to take said screenshot, share and cause outrage. The joys of social media

This as true back in the 90s when I was writing a report which included reference to the "Headmaster". It said "Gender specific. use headperson or principal".

"I have to say, feminism is a pretty serious issue for me."

This has fuck all to do with feminism.

Total none issue, and I consider myself a very strong feminist.

@bungaloid

Yeah my Outlook always nags me to be more concise. I think "Fuck You!, I'll write in waffly incomprehensible language if I want". Perhaps I should switch it off. I think I'd prefer the Terminator man vs machine future rather than a pissing grammar and writing style checker robot.

Mine has a vendetta against the word "probably". It seems to think I'm an indecisive wimp. (It would definitely tell me to get rid of that 'seems to'!)

I'm sorry, more inclusive to whom?

more inclusive to... everyone? i really don't understand what the problem is with this. What is the actual problem that you think suggesting inclusive language causes?

As pp suggested: when "he" is the default, women get left behind.

Yonks ago one of the German unis (Dresden i think, can't remember offhand) updated their articles, and decided that since something like 65% of faculty were women, and since German is a bloody awful language to try to de-gender (although there are ways round it) they decided to ditch the previously used generic male, and use generic female. And as generic male documents often do in German there was a disclaimer right at the beginning that where you read "she" it is intended to include everyone, even if you don't identify as she.

predictably the shit hit the fan as men threw their toys out of the pram at being referred to (although not really) as "she". And we all pointed and laughed and carried on our merry way.

I rendered the company handbook in a place i used to work into generic "she" once. Again majority of staff were women, included the disclaimer and walked away from it when the MD tried to make me change it. And left it as a pw protected document for someone else to type out. Which nobody did because the other women wouldn't do it either. Just for the shits and giggles.