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From: stacy@mcl.UUCP (Stacy L. Millions)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,news.admin
Subject: Re: Lawsuits (and countersuits)
Keywords: lawsuit, countersuit, silly, brain-damage, confusing
Message-ID: <551@mcl.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 88 18:48:21 GMT
References: <12230@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <12260@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <941@entropy.ms.washington.edu>
Organization: Millions Computing Ltd., Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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In article <941@entropy.ms.washington.edu>, mcglk@scott.stat.washington.edu (Ken McGlothlen) writes:

> It's sad, in a way--"--Mark" otherwise seems articulate enough.  But I
> find myself vaguely offended that there is someone out there that views
> the use of "she" and "her" as discriminatory--perfectly proper pronouns,
> being used perfectly properly.
> 
> 				--Ken McGlothlen

Mark is not the first person to be offended by the use of he/she or
him/her. Most of the time it is people who find terms like "chairman"
to be discriminatory. Mark is doing the opposite in finding she/her to
be discriminatory because them imply a lesser status.  He wants to be
referred to as a male, and is offended by the people who know that he
is female and refer to him by the female pronouns. That last sentence
goes against every thing my english teachers ever tried to teach me.

Personaly I think this whole discussion should be moved some where
more fitting, like alt.silly :-)

-stacy (go ahead, ask :-)

-- 
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S. L. Millions                                            ..!uunet!mcl!stacy