RE: [issues] Re: Demographics - Reprise

[Cat]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Sunnanvind wrote:

> 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'.  


Just a quick clarification -- in my operating systems course, every
reference *in our textbook* was she and her.  Oops!

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