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From: marc@emory.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: sexist language
Message-ID: <1113@emory.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 04:44:19 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 16 04:44:19 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Aug-83 23:35:19 EDT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
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Take note:
	male	man	guy
	female	woman	lady

The male words have one syllable and the female have two.
It is just plain harder to pronounce a word constructed
using one of these female words: 'chairman' is easier to
say than 'chairwoman'.  
	Consider the effects of such a switch:

	manhunt	    -->	    womenhunt
	manhour     -->	    womanhour
	manhole	    -->     womanhole
	malevolent  -->	    femalevolent

Whats worse is that the genderless word 'person' has two
syllables also.  

What we need is a new set of one syllable female words...

;)	Marcus	(sb1!emory!marc)