arcb

This is good feedback. As mentioned below in the thread, using a gender neutral pronoun may serve as an in-between. Sweden's working on it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/01...

I agree that the write-up is flawed - it tries to take on a deeper problem which someone smarter would probably have solved ages ago, had it been simpler.

The thesis boils down to - we have to understand cases where gender shouldn't matter, and have the tools to be able to write appropriately. I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.

On this point specifically, let's think about what happens in a professional context that actively tries to look past the gender of the subject and focus on the outcomes delivered by the person. Would you agree that gender can add a bias to a lot of cases where it shouldn't exist?