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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Homophobic garbage
- Message-ID: <Bxrpv1.49u@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 17:28:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.102603.21962@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1drpvtINNn3o@cuda.add.itg.ti.com> <1ds6faINNcfd@agate.berkeley.edu> <BxM1tz.3s8@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Nov14.172530.15394@dsg.cs.tcd.ie>
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- Organization: Do they make a washing powder called Caliban Automatic?
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- In article <1992Nov14.172530.15394@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes:
- >By defining female as the
- >"logical not" (opposite) of male, the program is embracing a dicotomy,
- >and leaves no room for the notion of transvestites or transexuals etc.
- >Definitely won't get past a PC compiler.
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- Chromosomally speaking, we should be defining male as a variant of
- female rather than vice versa...
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