Idea for an Ealing comedy
Britain in the 1950s. A female law student is refused entry to a lawyer's club on the grounds that it is men only. She goes to the library and discovers a medieval law still on the books that explicitly describes the defendant as 'he'. She commits the crime that the law forbids: something like driving sheep down Cornhill on a Sunday, is arrested but at trial claims the law does not apply to her as a 'she'. The prosecutors successfully argue that the 'he' there should be understood to be an outmoded unisex pronoun. And that that means she can take that ruling to the club and gain entry. And they are, of course, glad to have her, as she has successfully proved that she is going to be a very gifted barrister indeed.