gender neutrality

In defense of hir in a male-dominated environment

User Image sciencewoman | July 3, 2009
After the weekend, I'll be back with a follow up to the post on my progress towards tenure, and I'll try to address some of the substantive and thought-provoking comments that you all have raised. But, here in the States, it's already a holiday weekend, and so for today, I'll punt and take on a side issue from that comment thread. Comrade Physioprof commented: "hir" is a total ...abomination! It is so ...distracting it totally ruins the flow of reading, because it is NOT A REAL ...WORD! In terms of identifiability of an anonymous individual, how much difference does a factor of two make in…