Re: Gender biais

Subject: Re: Gender biais
From: James Perkins <perkins -at- TELE -dot- NOKIA -dot- FI>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 17:55:08 +0300

> A couple of weeks ago, in a column of the Gazette (Montreal) devoted to
> language, the author suggests that if there are enough people who use "it"
> instead of "he or she" or "he/she", the practice will eventually be
> adopted by everyone.

> Does anyone have any opinion about the proposed solution?

Very silly. It sounds like the behaviour of a bureaucracy, turning
everyone into things instead of retaining their humanity.



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