I've found this a surprisingly difficult habit (for me) to break. I figured that since I have a daughter, not a son, there was no reason her various and assorted friends-and-relations of the stuffed persuasion shouldn't be "she" and "her" rather than "he" and "him", but I still find myself falling into the habit of referring to them as "he" and "him" quite often. Takes work to combat the unconscious biases accumulated over a lifetime...
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Date: 2009-09-08 04:08 pm (UTC)--Trent