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From: sigrid@geac.UUCP (Sigrid Grimm)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Summary: let's end this all simply
Message-ID: <3045@geac.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 88 15:14:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.3045
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Reply-To: sigrid@geac.UUCP (Sigrid Grimm)
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In an article (Seth Gordon) writes:
>If MES files this lawsuit, I would appreciate it if he[*], ...
>
>[*] If my reading of MES's complaint is correct, he feels that although
>he is a woman, being referred to by the pronoun "she" is a violation of
>his right to be called whatever he damn pleases.  I don't think this
>will last ten minutes in a court of law (otherwise, someone could have
>sued the NYT into using `Ms.'), but I am quite happy to comply with
>MES's wishes in this respect.

Hey... Great Idea, Seth!! What a great way to end this bullshit once and 
for all... 

What if we all just comply with Mark's wishes and refer to Mark in the way 
that Mark requests? What-oh-what will Mark have left to talk about? Take 
the potential for the word "violate" in all its forms and ad nauseum 
repetitions right out of Mark's postings!!! 

I like it ... I like it ...

Sigrid