Kenneth Chang

"unmanned" is so 1960s. Today we say "robotic" or "unpiloted" or... ?https://twitter.com/Pillownaut/status/649690704843665408 …

@OmanReagan @DrFunkySpoon @drspacejunk Jargon is bad communication. Unmanned isn’t gender neutral bit everyone know what it means.

@kchangnyt @OmanReagan @DrFunkySpoon Those who don't know: little girls who think only boys can be astronauts.

@drspacejunk @kchangnyt @OmanReagan as a writer I sympathize w Ken. Unmanned is most convenient & seems most elegant. But there's a cost.

@DrFunkySpoon @kchangnyt @OmanReagan I'm not unsympathetic. It takes practice to make it automatic.

@drspacejunk @kchangnyt @OmanReagan yes. There's also something lazy about refusing to make the effort to find more inclusive locution.

@DrFunkySpoon @drspacejunk @OmanReagan “unmanned” gets inserted into these stories. By editors who happen to be women. Need alternative.