attn gnu mantainers

This document uses the gender-neutral third-person pronouns “person”, “per”, “pers” and “perself” which were promoted, and perhaps invented, by Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time. They are used just like “she”, “her”, “hers” and “herself”, except that they apply equally to males and females. For example, “Person placed per new program under the GNU GPL, to let the public benefit from per work, and to enable per to feel person has done the right thing.”

http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html

This is worse than that "binary prefix" shit.

At least this has an easy solution: use the existing gender-neutral pronouns "it", "its", and "itself". For example, "It placed its new program under the GNU GPL, to let the public benefit from its work, and to enable it to feel itself has done the right thing."