she/he

Since it is International Women's Day: I'm having a look at Herbert Blumer's Symbolic interactionism. Perspective and method. It's not very difficult to see that the essays were written a few decades ago. I find it utterly annoying to read sentences like: "One can do this [see oneself as a self and an object] only by placing himself in the position of others and viewing himself or acting towards himself from that position."