After some googling I found something: http://plover.net/~bonds/genderedlanguage.html http://plover.net/~bonds/genderedlanguage.html "... The problem is that i

After some googling I found something: http://plover.net/~bonds/genderedlanguage.html http://plover.net/~bonds/genderedlanguage.html "... The problem is that in the English language, the "traditional" gender-neutral form -- "his" -- happens to be the same as the masculine form. And to say or imply that an arbitrary or unknown person must be male, as those who use "his" are claimed to do, is discriminatory... "