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From: james@alberta.UUCP (James Borynec)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Replacement for he/she
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 17:37:05 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 17:37:05 1984
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If we actually want to eliminate sexism in language, I recommend that
we eliminate one of two sets of words entirely from the english language:
   
   1) he, his, man, Mr, him, etc...
   2) she, her, hers, woman, Miss, Mrs, Ms, etc...
 
    In the interests of saving ink, I suggest that we eliminate catagory 2.
 
                                      -- Jim Borynec
note: we should probably keep "male" and "female" around for situations that
     *have* to have a sexual bias.