[OTR-users] sexist assumptions in README, process_receiving_im()

[David Thiel]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:17:30PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> 'Their' is plural and OTR doesn't yet support multi user sessions?

"Their" is indeed traditionally plural, but is in common usage as a
singular gender-neutral pronoun, and has been for some time. It's fairly
well established now, though there are some pedants who still can't
stand it for some reason. Some interesting reading:

http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austheir.html

> I don't think it would be bad to rephrase it to avoid a pronoun
> alltogher, but it strikes me as an odd complaint.

In my opinion, that's probably the best course. The complaint is mostly
that it looks rather silly to see "Rebecca has ended his private
communications with you". The gender in this cause is obvious to me,
because I know this person and know that she is female.

Thanks,
David