your link led me to an entire nother thread. I had to change it to showthreaded to get to the right thread
Odd, Faldage; the link I posted (noting the dates of Oct. 5-9) gets me to the right thread. Sorry it didn't work for you. (Edit: perhaps the cause is that you set your display preferences at a lower number of posts-per-page than I?) I repeat the link here, for convenience:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=42471&page=&view=&sb=&vc=1?

I don't think that I even saw a he-she-it controversy.
See portion beginning with CK's post of Oct. 5, in which he proposed, "The woman went shopping and it bought a new pair of knickers". (emphasis added)