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RE: Time to Shine with Utopian.io
That was really fast. Your notes are appreciated. I will edit the text with your corrections. It happens to me quite often that other people don't really understand what I try to express. However, it is too much for me to expand on what I already wrote.
His or her vs their: That is going to be always a mystery to me. I incline with "their" but I let a native speaker see the text so I left the suggested "his or her" in this case.
I am a very fast editor and writer.
Now to the his or her vs. their issue. The problem with "his or her" is that although it is certainly more inclusive than "his," which folks used to use as a default, it is still not entirely inclusive. It references only those who are firmly on one side or another of the gender binary. I have non-binary friends, and I know how much they appreciate not being excluded, and how hurt they are by being routinely excluded.