On 9/4/2014 4:19 PM, Grimmund wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <kurt@thepaw.org> wrote:
>
>> Stay with the traditional methods and don't get cutsey and try to be
>> politically correct/neutral.  Nothing aggravates me more than to be reading
>> a manual (game book, technical manual, or something else) where they jump
>> back and forth between masculine and feminine or try to go a different route
>> and be cute and go some PC route.  In those cases my tolerance drops to
>> almost nil and unless the material is outstanding in every other way, I tend
>> to get very critical and often lose interest.
>
>
>   Eh.  Kurt, that sounds more like a case of your own interalized
> gender bias, than a critique of literary technique.

Neutral is fine so long as it is *consistent*.  Read through any D&D 3e+
or Pathfinder book and the gender jumps around every other chapter.
After a while their attempt to be all inclusive goes from cute to
irritating.

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