From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!csu-cs!bentson
Newsgroups: net.women
Title: Genderless pronouns
Article-I.D.: csu-cs.2205
Posted: Thu May 12 10:54:52 1983
Received: Thu May 19 02:51:59 1983

ihuxn!ewp has trouble with the following:

      A bunch of us were trying to decide where to go for lunch.
      One guy said, "I've got a taste for pizza," but then one
      woman said, "Anything but pizza.  I hate pizza."

because '"Woman" sounds much more formal than "guy"'.  This may
be so, but I have an additional problem with the example. How many
have noticed that in some regions that "guy" need not refer to
the male gender?  I have seen "guys" refer to just a group of people,
and (less often so) "guys" refer to a group of females.

In any event, since the sex of the actors in the above example
seem to be of no significance, I would suggest the following:
    
    A bunch of us were trying to decide where to go for lunch.
    One said, "I've got a taste for pizza", but then another
    said, "Anything but pizza. I hate pizza."

Randy Bentson
Colo State U - Comp Sci
csu-cs!bentson
303/491-7016