Replace gendered pronouns with gender-neutral

[epochblue]

For consistency sake, instances of "he", "she", "his", "hers",
"his/hers", "he/she", etc were replaced with "they", "their", etc (or
were removed all together in cases where they weren't necessary). Verb
tenses should also have been corrected where changes were made.

[richardmiller-zz]

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[DBNess]

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[weaverryan]

Hey Mr Bill!

I like it! This issue is important to me - I don't like saying "he" (for obvious reasons), and saying he/she makes the sentence read unnaturally (even if it is correct). I'd be very happy to use the less-correct plural tense and be done with it :).

So, I've patched this into the 2.2 branch at sha: 66ee944 - we'll merge it up into the other branches from there.

Thanks for this!

[Pictor13]

In some feminist groups there's also the common use of "*he" or "s/he".
I usually tend to the first one, but it's problematic with possessive forms.
I've always thought that with feminist movements, English will end up using "it"/"its" to refer generically to someone.
"They" sounds strange to me, but I am not a native English speaker, and I am aware that it is often used in order to refer to a generic individual.

Just my two cents (on a prehistoric issue 😅).