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Originally Posted by Steve Jackson
We are in 2018, things have changed, and we are trying to modernize gender references in our newly released material, while at the same time expecting our fans of all genders to understand that this text was written a long time ago, according to then standard manuals of style, and yes, it reads oddly now. (The punctuation is kind of funky, too.)
"Their" still sounds like a plural to me, since I learned to read in the 1950s, but "plural includes the singular" is no more strained than "masculine includes the feminine."
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This would be a very welcome change to your editorial policy for me, as it currently is I find that I need to write around using pronouns at all, since I am not personally comfortable with generic masculine.