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K. John Russell asks:
> Why not just use "she" instead of "he"
> and "her" instead of "him"?
>TADAAAA!
>I know it doesn't solve the gender issue, but where is the rule that
> says
>we have to use "he" and "him" all of the time. Obviously, the
> assumption
>so far is that the only option is to *create* a neutral
> (non-gender-specific)
>pronoun. This is not a safe, or valid, assumption.
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What if you KNOW that your audience is exclusively (or almost
so) male?
