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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: "Sexist" language rerun
Message-ID: <1834@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Aug-83 13:19:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 15 13:19:59 1983
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The last time we had this discussion, someone posted an article pointing
out (I believe) that Turkish and Finnish were two languages without
gendered nouns (or possibly just pronouns). This person went on to say that
Finnish women that he knew certainly would not say theirs was a non-sexist
society. That is, no matter who might like it or think it's a good idea,
"non-sexist" language does not make or indicate a non-sexist society. Are
there any natives/speakers of these two languages on the net who would
like to comment about this?
                                   trying to remember -
                                        Jeff Winslow