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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Language Flamage
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 13:45:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 13:45:44 1985
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>     The fact that Bengali (like English) has lost gender distinctions only
>     excludes this language from those that might have any bearing on Marie's
>     hypothesis.
> 
The hypothesis is beside the point. The point is that (apparently) Bengali has
no gender distinctions, but Bengali society is (apparently) still as sexist
as ever.

You want to make English without any gender distinctions. What do you think
that will accomplish? A less sexist society? Ha.

And your continual reference to anyone who disagrees with you about this
as "rabid conservative engineers" and "knee-jerk conservatives" makes me
seriously wonder if your grasp of the connection between language and reality
isn't slowly rotting away.

Stop wasting your time and get on to something really constructive.

						Jeff Winlsow