PO Box 1980

I was so happy to read the article "The Power of a Pronoun" in the September Grapevine. In our area, we recently took a group conscience about writing the Big Book in gender neutral terms. All of the groups except two really dug in their heels and said, "No." They were afraid that changing the pronouns would somehow alter the substance of the message. Their argument was, "If it works, don't fix it." But if that philosophy were adhered to, then we should still be flying around in rickety old bi-planes. After all, they worked too, so why fix or improve them?