Agree with others here that this is post is a bit... dramatic. But I think of this as a shortcoming of the English language. The fact that a gender-neutral pron

Agree with others here that this is post is a bit... dramatic. But I think of this as a shortcoming of the English language. The fact that a gender-neutral pronoun for a person doesn't exist (or exists, but isn't widely used) is forcing this to be an issue. Options exist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#English http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#English), but none of them are widely accepted.