From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!jce Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: More words and sex Article-I.D.: floyd.352 Posted: Fri Jul 9 15:48:43 1982 Received: Sun Jul 11 02:38:44 1982 while we're at it, let's get rid of all this Miss/Mrs/Mr/Ms crap. It wasn't much of a step to go from Miss/Mrs to Ms; after all, the issue should be that gender is unimportant. How about one generic title for everyone? For instance, M. Smith, M. Jones. But that's flawed, it might be confused with Monsieur, a blatantly sexist word. From now on, we should all go by Mx, pronounced "mix" or "mux." This will make the world safe for democracy by concealing our genders from the sexist element. Mx. John Eldridge harpo!floyd!jce