14. The Epicene Pronoun: The Word That Failed

I think it is a lame excuse to prefer the sentence, "Everyone loves his mother," over "Everyone loves their mother," just because one is too lazy to say, "Everyone loves his or her mother." Because isn't that what it comes down to, laziness? Like any concept, language is meant to evolve to adjust to the changing cultural climate, not remain stagnate to appease the grammatical politics of a sexist society. So, the argument that using "his or her" is "ugly and cumbersome," has nothing to do with rules of number agreement, but based on the fluidity, or lack thereof, when spoken out loud. Really? That's all you got? Even today, the usage of non-gendered words like "chairperson" or "police officer" are said by some as a form of political correctness, a humoring of those who prefer these terms, instead of a concentrated effort to create equality in language.