From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!csu-cs!silver
Newsgroups: net.women
Title: Re: genderless pronouns for the unborn
Article-I.D.: csu-cs.2203
Posted: Thu May 12 10:01:07 1983
Received: Thu May 19 04:01:12 1983


With a baby due  next  week, we are in the same  boat.  We just  call it
"he" or "she" as the mood strikes us, or  sometimes  "it".  I suppose we
could  have an amnio  done if we really  cared, but that  would ruin the
suspense (and surprise)!

Just to put this in  perspective...  we are also  very  uncertain  about
when the little rug-rat will arrive.  This, too, is an uncomfortable and
suspenseful  feeling that most new parents live with.  But, which do you
think  you'd be more  likely to win a Nobel for -- a simple  method  for
predicting when labor would begin, or a simple[r] way to to discover the
sex of the fetus?

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcld!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"