User blog comment:Ethrundr/Chat Logout Event List/@comment-5157141-20131020161552/@comment-6697950-20131020165006

I believe that Jet is trying to say that "he/himself" implies that all users are males, even though some might actually be girls. "they/themselves" would be a gender neutral approach to ensure that we don't have the problem of a female being called he or vice versa.