RE: His/Her v. Their

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

If your product is likely to go to countries of a certain type, 
where enforced patriarchy and women=chattel  are the norm, 
I (personally) would use "her" everywhere in the docs. And if 
I was supplying UI text... there, too. 

Of course, if your product was likely to go [almost?] exclusively 
to such countries, well:

a) are jobs that scarce in your area?

b)  if that's the bulk of the company's income, and therefore 
yours, you'd best forget guerrilla subversion-by-documentation, 
and go with what will keep the sales coming in.


 -k (now where did I put my Guy Fawkes mask?) 
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