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From: trb@floyd.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: genderless pronouns/nouns
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Date: Thu, 11-Aug-83 13:56:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 11 13:56:46 1983
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I found Judy McMullan's answer here rather odd:
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Last I heard, I was under no obligation to support the delusion of my
fellow man that a terrific place to live is one where nobody is
offended by anyone else.

	laura creighton
	utzoo!utcsstat!laura

I guess you mean the person would have to prove TO YOU that such usage is
harmful. A lot of people are avoiding the use of 'he' for women just because
some women don't like it. That is enough reason for them to change.

	jamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan)
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What strikes me as odd here, is that Judy finds that "because some
women don't like it ... is reason enough for them (users of 'he') to
change."  Evidently, there are also some people who disagreeth her, but
that's not reason enough for Judy McMullan to side with those people.

I don't see the logic.  And when I think of horsepower, I don't think
of horses either.

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491