I have a style question. Are there less grating ways to write gender neutral texts?
I, to my great surprise, was irritated to no end by “ey” and “eir”. I always stumbled when reading it. I dislike it and think “he/she” or “they” may be more natural and cause less stumbling when reading the article.
So far, I am against all the invented gender-neutral pronouns. Most of them sound strange (“ey” and “eir” look like a typo or phonetic imitation of deep southern accent, “xe” and “xir” use “x” sound and are simply painful to pronounce)
As of now, I am willing to sacrifice gender neutrality in texts in favor of readability.
I may be late to the party, but I really have to ask. Why is this a featured article? Bayesian defense of the resurrection of Jesus gives me a 404, so I cannot even read it.