I think that approach might be politically easier to accept if the plan had been to drop the masculine version for half the nouns, and the feminine one for the

I think that approach might be politically easier to accept if the plan had been to drop the masculine version for half the nouns, and the feminine one for the other half. But it's also hard to imagine the members of an old men's club voluntarily deciding that they should henceforth be known as autrices instead of auters. Doubly so 200 years ago.