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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Mostly I'd agree with you, except, you normally have expectations of the gender of a person when discussing some roles (and I'll admit to not knowing enough about publishing to know if that is the case here), and if the gender is not the one that automatically comes to mind you add the gender - think of the stag party if they book a stripper and get a male stripper  |
The case of a stripper for a stag (or hen) party is a case where it's perfectly valid to be specific about the gender of the person involved, but in a role such as editor, lawyer, teacher, etc, it's totally irrelevant. A person's plumbing arrangements has no correlation whatsoever to their ability to edit books.