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Larisa Grujic writes:
>> "Earl Cooley" <shiva -at- io -dot- com> 12/13/01 11:37AM
>> Has anyone tried ping ponging between gender
>> references, so that it balances out over the
>> course of the document?
>
> Wouldn't that be inconsistency?
>
You could always write a gender bias disclaimer
that explains that gender references swap back
and forth on purpose. You could even do a three
way rotation between him, hir, and her (although
you'd probably be shot down for using "hir". heh.
By the way, here's some grist for the mill,
the Gender Neutral Pronoun FAQ:
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