Well it does make a difference to me. So there's one data point. I used to think like you do... some things changed my mind. At MIT they (my professors, collea

Well it does make a difference to me. So there's one data point. I used to think like you do... some things changed my mind. At MIT they (my professors, colleagues and textbooks) always used non-gendered language. Here's a good essay by Douglas R. Hofstadter that got me thinking about the issue http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html