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Subject: Re: Now is the time for all good men...
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 12:10:33 EDT
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> 
> I was serious.  I really think that the generic term for a person should
> be "man", and that the generic pronouns should be "he", "him" and "his". The
> psychology of this is phenomenally powerful...it does not demand that anyone
> change his concept of "manhood" to one of "personhood", but rather that a female
> of our species be considered part of mankind.  It also acknowleges the fact
> that it IS a "man's world", and it does not place any importance in radically
> changing that man's world into a "persons world".
> 
>                               Cheryl Stewart, BMOC

I am not a man.  My daughters are not, and never will be, men.  I do not
want "manhood" and "manliness" upheld as standards we could only meet by
denying what we are.