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From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: The power of words
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 22:55:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 22:55:55 1984
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I enjoyed Sophie's excerpts from `Ms'.  I think the flames that precede
me miss the point.  The words do sound different -- more inclusive --
in a feminized form.

No, we shouldn't go out revising literature to serve political ends
no matter how noble, but sometimes it is helpful to look at things
differently, to change the words to see how they sound (are they still
true?  How is it different?  Does it `feel' different?).

Though `men' and `man' are, in some contexts, supposed to apply to all
people, sometimes we need to be reminded of that.  I think what Sophie's
contribution has done (for me anyway) is to remind me of that.
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett
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