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Changing horses in mid-stream
Dec. 6th, 2014 04:33 pmI must admit that while reading an older baby-development book I started to have some sympathy for the modern concept of alternating "he" and "she" in such books. I was reading bits aloud to the new parents and found that swapping "she" for "he" made it seem a lot more relevant to the new parents of a baby girl.
But here's how to carry things too far.
"When your baby is rear-facing, adjust the straps so they're threaded through the slots at or below his shoulder level, says Jennifer Stockburger, vehicle and child-safety program manager at Consumer Reports' Auto Test Center, in East Haddam, Connecticut. Otherwise, she could be injured or ejected in a crash."
What, the baby boy is okay but JENNIFER might be injured? Huh? Really, people, I think it's okay to stick with a single pronoun for at least the duration of a thought. If you can't stomach that, go back to the Victorian English convention and just say "it."
But here's how to carry things too far.
"When your baby is rear-facing, adjust the straps so they're threaded through the slots at or below his shoulder level, says Jennifer Stockburger, vehicle and child-safety program manager at Consumer Reports' Auto Test Center, in East Haddam, Connecticut. Otherwise, she could be injured or ejected in a crash."
What, the baby boy is okay but JENNIFER might be injured? Huh? Really, people, I think it's okay to stick with a single pronoun for at least the duration of a thought. If you can't stomach that, go back to the Victorian English convention and just say "it."
