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From: suh@cunixc.columbia.edu (Kenneth Suh)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Summary: IT!
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Date: 19 Jul 88 15:34:07 GMT
References: <12165@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <6278@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <12180@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: suh@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth Suh)
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <12180@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> era1987@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>Do you know what the word "feminine" refers to?  That's right,
>it refers to sex.  And so do "feminine pronouns."

Hey, let's just refer to Mark as it. :-)  Yeah, that's a great idea...
After all, it's neutral.  Why should it want to be referred to as he?
That is sexist also.

>Your site, MIT, Peter, didn't use to admit females.  There is still
>a lot of discrimination at your site, but most people are more
>discreet about it than you are, because they don't want to lose federal
>funding.  Should they lose their funding due to your posting, just
>because you wanted to have a little fun, they might not be too pleased
>with you.  Do you think you could discriminate against women on your
>own time, your own computer, and nnot post in such a way as to make
>MIT liable?

Barnard College doesn't admit men.  Isn't that sexist?
Also, I am sure that Peter doesn't speak for MIT.

>--Mark

/ken

The opinions expressed above are my own and do not relfect those of my
employer, Columbia University.

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