Gender Inclusive Language

I in no way want to imply that woman have not gotten the short-stick when it comes to naming things. For example, masculine pronouns are attached to God... and women get... cars, boats and airplanes. For this reason, I support the use of gender inclusive language when referring to the theoretical human person, humanity and God.

However, I witnessed something shocking today as I was doing my homework. An author had placed a large quotation of Karl Rahner in her thesis paper and had replaced all masculine words with gender-inclusive words in brackets (which was fine). She had been so copious in applying these brackets that they appeared in almost every sentence of the quotation...

...until...

...Rahner made a reference to the devil. All of the sudden the author stopped replacing masculine pronouns and adjectives with gender-inclusive words. It appeared as though the author wanted to show that while God and humanity should be portrayed as gender-ambiguous, EVIL on the other hand is surely masculine.

I mean... people call God 'mother' and 'she' all of the time, but "Princess of Darkness?" I've never heard that one.

It's not even that the author would have had to edit the text to make the devil feminine, because she was changing everything masculine to make it inclusive; hence "his" became "one's" and him became "person," etc. So why not continue that editing trend and apply it to all transcendent beings?

Oh well, maybe I've just bitten off more than I can chew.