RE: [issues] Re: Demographics - Reprise

[Sunnanvind]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Cat wrote:
> I mean, isn't taking the male word as the neuter word doing the
> same thing as using mankind vs humankind?  I personally dislike the fact
> that 'he' and 'his' are supposed to be used when referring to a possible
> person of either gender.  I really enjoyed my operating systems class last
> semester, where every reference to a user or programmer was 'she' and
> 'her'.  

I agree.. and that's what I was trying to say with the mail that I'm sending
simultaneously as this one. :)
Sunnan (always late - dang time zones. Oh, it's 03 36 am.)
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