For the situation you use in your example, I'd just use singular they. Which makes a lot of prescriptivist purists cringe, but, you know, Shakespeare used singular they.
I wanted to comment this to her* post, but it would be totally derailing, and she's already dealing with trolls. I can just hope she finds it, I guess.
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Date: 2010-06-22 05:09 pm (UTC)From:I wanted to comment this to her* post, but it would be totally derailing, and she's already dealing with trolls. I can just hope she finds it, I guess.
*I assume.