Angry Pronouns

From the sound (perceived from the writing style) of Dennis E. Baron's words, it can be concluded that there is a hint of anger, or at least a sense on personal inaptness towards the use (or non-use) of certain words. I dug deep into my automatically-assumed sexist heart (because I'm a man) and didn't even come close to finding what Mr. Baron had thought about, and wrote about, in his sixteen page article. Personally, I feel that there must have been something that had triggered his brain to write such an article.

Aside from my personal feelings of Baron, I still have a difficult time in believing that it is 100% masculine 100% of the time. One can break apart the speech patterns in "American Speech" and if they (no gender intended) dig deep enough, I guess you can conclude whatever you desire, or whatever your motive may be. The phrase "Joseph took the young mother and the child by night, and fled with them into Egypt," is just one example of Baron determining masculinity by surgically examining "sexist" words. In my opinion the average person is not going to look at this and say "this needs to be more feminine." Not because it isn't feminine enough, but because the pronouns used to describe the situation mean certain things to each beholder.