Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jamcmullan From: jamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: neuter language constructs Message-ID: <7545@watmath.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 13:22:54 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.7545 Posted: Mon Apr 16 13:22:54 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Apr-84 07:12:14 EST Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 11 >In other words, these masculine undertones are not a product of our >language, but of our society. Changing the language would be a >very shallow and meaningless victory, although on the surface it >might appear pleasing, it would not solve anything. I'll take the shallow meaningless victory, for now. Then, while changing the entire structure of society, I won't be using counter-productive words to do it with. :-) --from the sssstickkky keyboard of JAM ...!{allegra|decvax}!watmath!jamcmullan