From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxa!houxm!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!emrath
Newsgroups: net.women
Title: Re: Genderless pronouns and non-sexist w - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1935
Posted: Sun Apr 24 04:29:49 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 06:24:28 1983

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uiucdcs!emrath    Apr 24 04:29:00 1983

In the quote "I saw a fireman and she smiled at me",
try to imagine that the 'fireman' is a man.

I kind of like "When I see your secretary, how will I recognize it?"

but most people would consider me a boor for saying something like that
(at least until the majority of secretaries are machines!)