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- From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Embryos as Property?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.092853.6304@hemlock.cray.com>
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- References: <1992Dec16.155842.17381@zooid.guild.org> <1992Dec17.190218.11941@wdl.loral.com> <nyikos.724959333@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:28:53 CST
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- In article <nyikos.724959333@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
-
- >
- >2. If not, would you say he is a victim of institutional brainwashing
- >as to what are the acceptable ways of referring to women? (BTW later
- >on he said "chick" = "hot babe", another term which I consider to be
- >evidence of sexism on the part of the person using it.)
- >
- Language is an evolving entity, Mr. Nyikos. (Hmmm. If
- it's not a person, wonder whose property it is. The Queen's?)
- In any case, you will be pleased to hear that the term,
- 'hot babe', is now gender neutral. I have heard the term
- in colloquial usage by young females in reference to young
- males for about a year now.
-
- muriel
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