Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alberta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!alberta!james From: james@alberta.UUCP (James Borynec) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Replacement for he/she Message-ID: <74@alberta.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 17:37:05 EST Article-I.D.: alberta.74 Posted: Tue Feb 7 17:37:05 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 06:13:08 EST References: <367@rayssd.UUCP>, <196@unisoft.UUCP>, <1805@lanl-a.UUCP>, <3800@gatech.UUCP> Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Lines: 12 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.