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Re: Gender neutrality and the multiple-personality third-person pronoun

Subject: Re: Gender neutrality and the multiple-personality third-person pronoun
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: "H. Christopher Christner" <cchris -at- toptechwriter -dot- us>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:47:31 -0500

H. Christopher Christner wrote:


What would you have written if it had been your story?



In the case of celebratory gunfire, call me old-fashioned, call me sexist, call me what you will (except late for supper, of course), but I'm gonna go with the presumption of maleness:

"Police hope the person who fired the shot will turn himself in to
authorities."

But if my editor were to reject that because she thought a woman might be the perpetrator--or if we were talking about an equal-opportunity crime such as embezzlement--I might change it to:

"Police hope the perpetrator will surrender to authorities."

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