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From: twltims@watmath.UUCP (Tracy Tims)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Miss/Mrs/Ms
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Date: Sat, 24-Sep-83 22:12:34 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 24 22:12:34 1983
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I have never felt that a woman who uses "Ms." is being impersonal.  I
simply see it as the non-inclusion of a non-relevant detail.  Do you see
"Mr." as being impersonal?  Changing to a "Mr/Master" title is a regressive
step.  Marital status is generally non-relevant.  Where it is relevant
people can be explicit.  I think a positive step would be to have a
generic title for people.  No reason to give bigots all sorts of additional
hooks into people's lives.  I suspect that the reason those hooks exist is to
facilitate bigotry in the first place.

		Tracy Tims
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formerly	hcr!tracy  		Human Computing Resources Corporation