Not the movie, I’m talking about gender neutrality. Contour, having been developed by a sexist pig (me) always referred to the protagonist in the masculine. Actually, I’m kidding about the sexist pig thing. I hope.
In actuality there is a debate in academic circles about gender neutrality and I had relied on the school of thought, as well as the guidelines in Strunk & White’s Elements of Style, that permitted the use of the masculine to refer to any non-specific person regardless of sex.
After much consideration (and one refund to an irate user with a female protagonist) we’ve decided to embrace gender neutrality. As updates start rolling out to Contour 1.0 we’ll be chipping away at all examples of inappropriate gender specific language in the user’s guide, manual, examples, help tips, this blog, etc. As you can imagine, this is a bit of an undertaking, so please be patient with us. We’re trying to do the right thing. Honest! Rewriting it all will take some time.
In the meantime, if I’ve offended anyone I would like to apologize to him or her, ask for his or her forgiveness, and assure him or her that he or she is welcome to contact me to discuss this or that.
