Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-k Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:ag5 From: ag5@pucc-k (Henry Mensch) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he Message-ID: <794@pucc-k> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 00:34:03 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-k.794 Posted: Wed Jan 9 00:34:03 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 03:29:42 EST References: <218@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA> Organization: Tower Acres Pleasure Center Lines: 24 Xref: watmath net.nlang:2344 net.women:3998 <<>> I don't know if this gender-non-specific stuff is worth wrenching our hands (and minds) over ... Many of the world's languages have this bugand, quite frankly, I think it's rather neat.. And I certainly don't people in net-land referring to this article as "their" (meaning mine). It sounds bloody ridiculous! BTW, this sort of stuff is almost as tacky as Ms . While I do approve of a "courtesy title" for women which does *not* indicate marital status, I think that Ms (Miz) is bottom-of-the-barrel and (if I were a woman) I wouldn't stand for it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry C. Mensch | User Confuser | Purdue University User Services {ihnp4|decvax|ucbvax|purdue|uiucdcs|cbosgd|harpo}!pur-ee!pucc-i!ag5 BITNET: HCMENSCH@SUVM CSNET: hcmensch@syr-cis-aos ------------------------------------------------------------------- ". . . he wasn't festive but was probably ambidextrous"