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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: A Small Victory; Not at All
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 00:27:07 EST
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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

You are, of course, referring to sex, in which case you're usually right,
rather than referring to gender, in which case you're only right in the 
majority of cases.  Since the preceeding article referred to gender rather
than to sex, you should remember that that means "social role" rather than
"genital sex".  But then, since nobody else is interested in these subtleties,
nevvver minnnd....
				Sunny
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{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Ms. Sunny Kirsten)