Disrupt the gender binary and abolish the awkward occurrences of "he or she" from your reading experience!
Way back in the golden days, the following sentence would have been considered gender neutral:
Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for his entire life.
Then, with the advent of women's rights, it has become fairly wide-spread to replace he
with he or she
. However this could result in the following:
Teach a person to fish, and you feed him or her for his or her entire life.
Yikes. Not only is this awkward-sounding, but it reinforces the ~ gender binary ~ :O
They-ify is a Chrome extension that addresses this dual issue by replacing any permutation of he/she
with the appropriate form of they
.
Using the previous example, They-ify would produce:
Teach a person to fish, and you feed them for their entire life.
:)
PLEASE NOTE: This is still a work in progress. There are many different grammatical cases that have yet to be explored before they-ify can accurately insert the correct form of "they." Stay tuned.
Special thanks to @andreadean whose chrome extension inspired this one!
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/192/is-it-correct-to-use-their-instead-of-his-or-her