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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6211038" data-attributes="member: 32740">Masculine generically.  Modern English developed to use pronouns that way.  English doesn't really use neutral gender pronouns.  It reads and sounds forced and awkward to me to attempt to alternate female with male without text referring to a specific female example.  I don't have an issue with using plentiful female examples in a text, but if you want to re-educate the English-speaking world to adopt someone's idea of a more politically correct usage then I say that declaring D&D books as one of the battlegrounds is not the way to go about it.If you want to forcibly shift the direction of the development of the language and the modern society that uses it then get all the worlds great English linguists together, let them agree on what the changes will be (if any) and why, and THEN start teaching it in the schools, and work for the incorporation of the changes in the things that THAT generation comes to read and write.  However, leave the rest of us alone and stop picking at us for simply using the language in the way that we were taught was actually the correct way.  Eventually enough of us will die out and the societal norm will have shifted and the master plan of re-education will succeed.As for what the usage should be, I suggest:masc  fem  neutrHim   Her  HupHis   Hers  HupsWhy?  Because it's entirely made up new pronouns that future generations will be able to argue with because they were invented by a man and therefore biased.  I just hope to live long enough to see that argument.</blockquote>

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