Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!bunker!garys From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.women Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he Message-ID: <643@bunker.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 17:45:47 EST Article-I.D.: bunker.643 Posted: Wed Jan 2 17:45:47 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 04:40:53 EST References: <1315@dciem.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.nlang:2307 net.women:3953 > Generic Versus Specific Inclusion of Women in Language: Effects on Recall > > Mary Crawford and Linda English > > J. Psycholinguistic Research, 1984, 13, 373 > > ... College student subjects read essays that were identical > except for the use of "generic" terms versus those that deliberately > include women (he/she, his/her, people). In experiment 1, the Generic > essay form led to better recall of the essay's factual content by male > subjects, while the Specific form produced better recall by females. Wonderful. So no matter how I write, I will be discriminating against *somebody*, in that what I write will be harder for females to grasp if I use generic terms, and harder for males to grasp if I use he/she. Gary Samuelson ittvax!bunker!garys