Gal, too, in case I need to make that clear. First of all, I'm as egalitarian as the next guy. Gal, too, in case I need to make that clear. Laws and all their privileges and responsibilities should apply equally to males and females. But, an effort in the Legislature to rewrite statutory language to make it gender-neutral seems to be another case of pronoun paranoia.
Some gender neutralizing language is good.
Forced gender-neutral language can do to a carefully constructed sentence what a new strip mall does to an established neighborhood. It sticks out like a sore thumb, drawing attention away from the real meaning of the sentence. I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his or hers. All the king's horses and all the king's military personnel couldn't put Humpty together again. Supporters of gender-neutralizing argue that the masculine language is antiquated.