Make third person singular pronouns gender neutral #443
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Various places in both documentation and default emails to admins/moderators
use he/him/his to refer to generic users of unknown gender. This commit
changes all generic uses of male pronouns to use singular they/them/their.
It also changes "his/her" to "their", but leaves "he or she" unchanged due
to less trivial conjugation issues. NEWS, AUTHORS.md, and OChangeLog are
unchanged.
Motivating example:
becomes