From: utzoo!decvax!genrad!linus!allegra!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!hpdb!ajk
Newsgroups: net.women
Title: re: Genderless pronouns
Article-I.D.: hpdb.130
Posted: Mon May  9 12:35:19 1983
Received: Fri May 13 21:26:47 1983

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Date:Mon, 9-May-83 12:35:19 EDT


     My wife and I have run into some confusion in this area
with  regard to our first child, which we are expecting in a
few months.  We've had some confusion with how to  refer  to
the  fetus.   He,  she,  it, all seem inappropriate.  'He or
she' is just too unwieldy.  A friend of ours referred to his
unborn  child  as  'shim', a contraction of 'she' and 'him'.
We felt that to be a bit pretentious and thought of the con-
traction  of 'she' and 'it' as a possibility.  I don't think
our kid will appreciate learning about  this  nickname  when
s/he  is ten years old, though, so we decided to 'she/it'can
this idea.

     Any suggestions on this?   Ziggy  Zygote?   Cletus  the
Fetus?  Nah . . .

     Allan Kuchinsky - Hewlett Packard Design Aids