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From: swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
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Date: Mon, 18-Jul-88 22:00:18 EDT
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In article <6272@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth Gordon) writes:
>[*] 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.

Isn't 'he' a neutral pronoun only when you don't know the sex of the person
you are refering to?  We know that MES is female so we (many of us) call her
'she.'  Besides, I've never heard of someone being sued for using incorrect
grammar.

(We could always use 'it,' I suppose.  :-)  sorry...)

Frank Swarbrick (and, yes, the net.cat)           swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU
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