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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.flame
Subject: Re: MS/Miss/Mrs.
Message-ID: <2249@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Jan-85 15:17:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 20 15:17:05 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1680@sdcrdcf.UUCP> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry & Lee Gold) writes:
>Usually I don't use any honorific at all:  I just settle for being Lee Gold.
>(Or sometimes even Lee Ann Gold.)

>I was once in an amateur press association with one jerk who persisted in 
>calling me "Mr. Lee Gold."  And that on the grounds
>that he found my writing style somehow intrinsically masculine and refused
>to believe I was female.
>
I have a friend whose gender is not easily inferred from her first name. She
won a Rhodes Scholarship, which they took back when they discovered that she
isn't a man.
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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