Awkward, clumsy. The male pronouns should be used generically again. As for those who use exclusively feminine pronouns or alternate between masculine and feminine (which I advised my students to do when I was teaching to make things easier on them)--this is admitting defeat. Why capitulate to feminist fascists and make the feminine pronouns generic?
The fact that the editors of a few grammar handbooks and style guides should have had such a massive NEGATIVE impact on clear writing has always baffled and irritated me. Probably another instance of higher ed bullshit infiltrating into the wider culture, like neo-Marxism, anti-whiteness, and every other damned strain of mind poison currently killing us. "Ivory tower" my Aunt Fanny.
Awkward, clumsy. The male pronouns should be used generically again. As for those who use exclusively feminine pronouns or alternate between masculine and feminine (which I advised my students to do when I was teaching to make things easier on them)--this is admitting defeat. Why capitulate to feminist fascists and make the feminine pronouns generic?
The fact that the editors of a few grammar handbooks and style guides should have had such a massive NEGATIVE impact on clear writing has always baffled and irritated me. Probably another instance of higher ed bullshit infiltrating into the wider culture, like neo-Marxism, anti-whiteness, and every other damned strain of mind poison currently killing us. "Ivory tower" my Aunt Fanny.