Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?

Subject: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?
From: "Dan Glovier" <dglovier -at- edline -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:57:29 -0600


Greetings,

Is anyone a fan of using "they" as the gender neutral singular pronoun
of choice? For example:

"The first time a user accesses their account, they will have to enter
their e-mail address and give praise to tech writers everywhere."

Not the best sentence ever inked (ethered?), but it illustrates my
point. I guess my real question is whether or not the usage above has
gained any momentum in the past year or so or is this still a sticky
subject that has several solutions?

I'm obviously never going to use:
she/he
he/she
s/he
he or she
and so on and so on and so on

Thanks, and have a great weekend!
Dan Glovier



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