From 54e70a786b0288f3d4c76cac461998a8e70855c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 00:27:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] begin "The Reverse Murray Rule" --- content/drafts/the-reverse-murray-rule.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/drafts/the-reverse-murray-rule.md diff --git a/content/drafts/the-reverse-murray-rule.md b/content/drafts/the-reverse-murray-rule.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..63787dc --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/the-reverse-murray-rule.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Title: The Reverse Murray Rule +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: other +Tags: Charles Murray +Status: draft + +> As always, I adhere to the Murray Rule for dealing with third-person singular pronouns, which prescribes using the gender of the author or principal author as the default, and I hope in vain that others will adopt it. +> +> —Charles Murray, _Real Education_ + +The Murray Rule is a fine illustration of the [use of conventions as a symmetry-breaker](/2020/Jan/book-review-the-origins-of-unfairness/): instead of having to [flip a coin every time](https://web.archive.org/web/20070615130139/http://singinst.org/upload/CFAI.html#foot-15) you want to talk about a hypothetical human in the third person, + +[chauvanistic, women and men were made for each other] + -- 2.17.1