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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social
Subject: Re: Salemanship
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Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 13:15:25 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 15 13:15:25 1985
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>In article <1216@peora.UUCP> jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) writes:
>>thing for me; that having known many male-type people very well, and a
>>reasonable number of female-type people fairly well, I have observed many
>>times that reasonably intelligent female-type people still get easily
>>"taken in" by the male-type people with the cleverest "sales pitches,"
>
>What is the 'male-type' 'female-type' crap, anyway?  Has the use of
>these ridiculous and superfluous terms been discussed before?

Glad you asked.  I use these two terms because if I don't, a handful of
people come out of strange corners and begin uttering hostile rhetoric
because whatever word I happened to use offended them.  The above terms
connote nothing at all except a person's sex, and are based on a strange
grammatical flaw in Niklaus Wirth's original book on Pascal.

Having argued endlessly with Sophie Quigley, Beth@sphinx, and Jeannette
Zobjbeck (sp.) over words for female people, and other irritating aspects
of English syntax, I would rather not use any words at all than get into
another argument.


Disclaimer follows.

(However, I have decided Jeannette is basically a nice person.  This doesn't
absolve the former two, however, who have never yet said anything to me
that wasn't purely vindictive.  However, it seems pointless to endlessly
argue over mere words, especially when there is so little time remaining
to do so...  I hope you won't start another such argument in here; there
is enough in net.flame already.)
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