It's threads like this one that makes me really depress. Am I the only person left in the world that only listens to classical? My rotations are between romantic, classical, modern classical, and jazz. As I read through this thread, I recognized absolutely none of the names you guys mentioned. Makes me sad to think I'm the only one here who knows who Michael Collin and Byron Strippling are.
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Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style.
He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!