Re: Grammar

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

> > > What are we to say about the avalanche towards "they" and "their" as
> > > singular neutral pronouns? To each their own?
why can't we all be what I would call true feminists, and simply get used
to thinking of his as her? Or his. Or its. That way we would never have to
bother with this ugly their-singular business. When Edith Wharton for
example, speaking of herself, writes of a writer and his problems, there is
not the slightest oddity--it is so clear that the he-writer can be the
she-writer, and that he, in this case, means she, Wharton. (I think also of
the fine way in which Berenice Abbott used to throw off 'you guys' to gals
or mixed company.) The problem is not in the word, but the meaning we give
to the word. What the word means to each one of us is the one thing that is
within our control. (Is that grammatical?)