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  2. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  3. Subject: Re: Radical feminists 
  4. Message-ID: <725097282snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz>
  5. From: hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson)
  6. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 07:54:42 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec22.030111.25846@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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  9. Organization: Lethargy Inc.
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  13. In article <1992Dec22.030111.25846@bmerh85.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca writes:
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  15.   > branded a "radical feminist" for preferring "persons" to "men (including
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  17. Time for another thread. Why is it that "persons" seems to be rising 
  18. in popularity at the expense of "people"? To me it seems much more 
  19. impersonal, treating people as mere population units.
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  22.  Phil Anderson  ***  hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz
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  24.        "No-one is equal to anyone else!"
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