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Maybe it's just my lazy desire not to have to think about such matters, but I just defer to Strunk and White in these discussions. I love it when someone else makes these coin-flip decisions for me and publishes a book about it. :)

Their take? Just use "he". Gender be damned.

Not even S&W is immune. NPR did a segment on the book a few months back and some English lit types where complaining about how vague, unoriginal and even wrong it is.

Not even S&W is immune. NPR did a segment on the book a few months back and some English lit types where complaining about how vague, unoriginal and even wrong it is. How can one be vague in a book of 50 pages is beyond me.

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