It's pointless to discuss with you your opinion of what other people know or think. I'm not going to play games about an editor's gender either. If you know, state it. I've made my best guess and used the appropiate pronoun for that guess. Dayewalker has made no comment suggesting that any slight was taken, or any error made. If anyone said that an error was made, rather than playing games by telling me that I "may" be in error "at times" and it "may" be taken as an insult "at times," I would change to the other available pronoun. Attempts at bringing gender neutral Englsih personal pronuons into wide usage have failed for centuries. I'm using the Englsih language the way it is. It has flaws. If you name your boy Sue (or create an online alisis of "Sue" for him), and he uses that name on the internet, the majority of people will refer to Sue as her. Sue is free to correct them, should they error . . . and he care. Take your petard somewhere else.75.4.195.159