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<blockquote data-quote="Kaffis" data-source="post: 3757554" data-attributes="member: 10305">Alternating is subtly distracting to me. I was taught the generic &quot;he&quot; and find it adequate. &quot;One&quot; is more than subtly distracting to me, it's blatantly awkward. I'm not adverse to the occasional oddball's attempts to mainstream s/he or what have you (and I find it infinitely preferable to he/she or she/he -- it's the addition of a single character rather than doubling the length of the pronoun), but it still stands out to me as it has yet to actually achieve &quot;normalcy&quot; -- though I'd rather find a more readily pronounceable (or rather, one that is differentiable from simply &quot;she&quot;) gender neutral singular pronoun in the long run.But now I'm digressing from the actual topic at hand, which is what I'd like to see used in the books in question. I'd feel most at home with he. I'd not fuss or roll my eyes over alternating. I'd be seriously scratching my head at the use of a generic she. I'd be annoyed at a he/she or she/he, but only kind of sigh at a s/he. I'd roll my eyes at one and/or they.But at the end of the day, &quot;he&quot; is shortest, which means more space for crunchy bits and real fluff. And isn't that what matters?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kaffis, post: 3757554, member: 10305"] Alternating is subtly distracting to me. I was taught the generic "he" and find it adequate. "One" is more than subtly distracting to me, it's blatantly awkward. I'm not adverse to the occasional oddball's attempts to mainstream s/he or what have you (and I find it infinitely preferable to he/she or she/he -- it's the addition of a single character rather than doubling the length of the pronoun), but it still stands out to me as it has yet to actually achieve "normalcy" -- though I'd rather find a more readily pronounceable (or rather, one that is differentiable from simply "she") gender neutral singular pronoun in the long run. But now I'm digressing from the actual topic at hand, which is what I'd like to see used in the books in question. I'd feel most at home with he. I'd not fuss or roll my eyes over alternating. I'd be seriously scratching my head at the use of a generic she. I'd be annoyed at a he/she or she/he, but only kind of sigh at a s/he. I'd roll my eyes at one and/or they. But at the end of the day, "he" is shortest, which means more space for crunchy bits and real fluff. And isn't that what matters? [/QUOTE]

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