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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: A Small Victory; Not at All
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Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 09:50:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 09:50:15 1985
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> > Actually, I do not understand why people spend so much time on such trivial
> > tasks as eradicating gender specific pronouns from the language.
> 
> Because it is not always clear that everyone must be EITHER a "he" OR a "she".
> -- 
> {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)

Sorry, but unless you have invented a new genus of human, every one is either
a 'he' or a 'she'. This does not imply the superiority or degradation one one
with respect to the other. This acknowledges that the human species is divided
in males and females.

Marcel Simon