But the most important reason to argue with someone is to change his mind.
It feels so quaint to see the generic “he” in an Yvain post. (I think he later used novelty gender-neutral pronouns for a while and now uses the singular “they”.)
This might have been the last Yvain post to do so, because of this comment further down the page. Looking at the next ~5 of them in chronological order, I couldn’t find any generic pronouns, so I couldn’t easily test it.
It feels so quaint to see the generic “he” in an Yvain post. (I think he later used novelty gender-neutral pronouns for a while and now uses the singular “they”.)
This might have been the last Yvain post to do so, because of this comment further down the page. Looking at the next ~5 of them in chronological order, I couldn’t find any generic pronouns, so I couldn’t easily test it.