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- From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist language
- Message-ID: <38044@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 13:23:36 GMT
- References: <92355.112019HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
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- In article <92355.112019HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> HERSCH@auvm.american.edu writes:
- # Published references, please, showing some feminists proposing to
- # replace the *word* "history" with the *word* "herstory".
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- Cheap debating ploy, Mr. Browne. Truth is not born (or borne) on the
- pages of academic journals.
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- I too have heard a *few* women object to "history", singing "hymns",
- etc. It never occurred to me that they represent feminists as a
- group, but neither did it occur to me that they didn't exist despite
- the evidence of my senses. Every movement has its lunatic groupies.
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- David Johns
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