"or her". But then some team might complain, let alone all the transgender. Can we, just for a second, assume good faith and instead inspect your wise (but girly) words?
PS: As a foreigner learning German, do you notice the small differences in German? I have a somewhat disappointed view on the matter of these pathetic and almost zynic gendering of language. What's the point of it as long as women here in Austria earn 30% less than men do? It's wrong to believe that things can change by using a different wording.
Well it does make a difference to me. So there's one data point.
I used to think like you do... some things changed my mind. At MIT they (my professors, colleagues and textbooks) always used non-gendered language. Here's a good essay by Douglas R. Hofstadter that got me thinking about the issue http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
