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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Keywords: Sexual, gender, discrimination,pronouns,language
Message-ID: <2909@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 88 04:38:50 GMT
References: <12165@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <6278@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <12180@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1040@unccvax.UUCP> <23898@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Organization: Mr. Video's Hangout
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In article <23898@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> wlieberm@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (William Lieberman) writes:
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<The brouhaha surrounding the use of the otherwise male terms 'he', 'his',
<'him', is just that: an otherwise term.

Some people may get pissed at me for saying this, but when I know that a
person is of the female gender, I will call that person a woman and use
the pronouns her and she.  I will not use he, him or man, except when
talking about the male gender.  I will only use man when used in the
other context of describing the human race, ie, man in general.

Those six words means something particular in our language and that is the
way that I will use them.

I don't quite understand the getting upset of being describe with the 
words used for that purpose.  I just can't look at a female and use a
male descriptive pronoun.  To me it is like trying to call a cat a dog.


OK, now flame me.
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