diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/compat/version.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/compat/version.py
index fbd82f589a6..f4db1ef3d52 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/compat/version.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/compat/version.py
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ class StrictVersion(Version):
 #     ('alpha', 'beta', 'a', 'b', 'pre', 'p')
 #   - indicating a post-release patch ('p', 'pl', 'patch')
 # but of course this can't cover all version number schemes, and there's
-# no way to know what a programmer means without asking him.
+# no way to know what a programmer means without asking them.
 #
 # The problem is what to do with letters (and other non-numeric
 # characters) in a version number.  The current implementation does the