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From: lauren@cbmvax.UUCP (Lauren Brown CATS)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal,soc.women
Subject: Re: Proposed lawsuit
Message-ID: <4311@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 88 16:51:07 GMT
References: <12165@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1378@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <1650@osiris.UUCP>
Reply-To: lauren@cbmvax.UUCP (Lauren Brown CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1650@osiris.UUCP> ted@osiris.UUCP (Ted Ying) writes:

>	Now I was planning on staying out of this, however, 

        So was I:-)


>	What I would like however, is to teach people to respect women
>	as they are, as FEMALE equals.  To teach those that don't
>	understand, that she and her are not diminuatives.  By using
>	male pronouns, you are trying to treat women like men.  That
>	is a misguided goal at best.  To treat women as EQUALS is by
>	far a better goal.


Why does the above, and many more points being made during this debate,
remind me of the "Separate but Equal" philosophy of South Africa?  And
we all know just how successful *that's* been.
>
>	Ted Ying		allegra!mimsy!aplcen!
>					 uunet!pyrdc!osiris!ted


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