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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Sexist language
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- Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
- References: <92355.112019HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> <38044@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <92361.171126HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 06:00:27 GMT
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- In article <92361.171126HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> writes:
- :>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.
- :>
- :
- :I certainly can't argue with your final sentence. As to the rest,
- :if you say so. I don't know you, but so far I have no reason to
- :doubt your truthfulness. All I can say is that *I* have never heard
- :this kind of thing proposed seriously, in print or otherwise.
-
- You haven't been hanging aound in soc.bi these last few months then -
- there are more than a few PC language police who *do* say these things
- with (ahem) a straight face. Fortunately they're by no means in the
- majority.
-
- G
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