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• W1994227776 abstract "Who would have thought that the battle of the sexes would be fought on editorial pages with the strategies of semantics and the weapons of grammar? Having liquidated “man” as suffix (chairman, salesman, anchorman, and the like have been superseded by the appropriately prefixed “person”), feminists are now focusing on the masculine pronouns, “he,” “him,” and “his.” Such pronouns, they contend, should be used only when referring to men. If they refer to both men and women or if the gender of the referent is either unknown or not at issue, “he,” “him,” and “his” should be followed, respectively, by “or she,” “or her,” and “or hers.” No one will dispute the logic of the feminist demand; however, logical demands are not necessarily reasonable. Many of those who have graciously accepted the constraints of “person”-ship, even at the expense of such tongue twisters as “sportspersonship,” balk at the “he or she” imperative. They either refuse to comply or let off steam through tongue-in-cheek articles and letters to the editor. Some suggested new coinages, such as “heshe,” “shehe,” or “ehshe,” to designate both genders. Others proposed, as an act of atonement for centuries of semantic discrimination, that the feminine pronoun be used when both genders are implied. The “he or she” imperative weighs heavily on medical writers, whose concerns are with the physician and the patient, either one of whom can be male or female. Small wonder that their essays and editorials are showered with these awkward pronoun linkages to the point of saturation. Take, for example, the following passage: To a diabetic patient with autonomic neuropathy, postural hypotension can be a source of frustration. He or she may not be able to cope with gravity. To his or her physician, this disability is a source of perplexity. He or she may find it difficult to explain why therapy is ineffective. The writer who penned these cumbersome sentences might have secretly wished that he or she were a veterinarian. He or she could then have tagged his or her patient with the impersonal neutral “it” and thus spared himself or herself a stylistic embarrassment. Is there no way out of this impasse? Must the semantic obstacle always impede the smooth flow of language? One stratagem, which is now used with increasing frequency, is the plural umbrella. Mercifully, the English plural knows no gender. “They,” “theirs,” and “them” embrace both the masculine and the feminine, thus obviating the singular “he or she.” The plural umbrella would transform the afore-quoted clumsy passage into an elegant: To diabetic patients with autonomic neuropathy, postural hypotension can be a source of frustration. They may not be able to cope with gravity. To their physicians, this disability is a source of perplexity. They may find it difficult to explain why therapy is ineffective. Of course, not every medical writer will be happy with the plural alternative. The odd one may miss the more vigorously personal singular “he.” Let him or her then seek other gimmicks. Where there is a will, he or she will find a way." @default.
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