Re: Abolish antisexism rules! Long live the equivalence of people!
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 09:07:35PM -0600, john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
> Or do as Feynman did in his textbooks: randomly switch back and forth
> between 'he' and 'she'.
Nah, 'he' and 'she' are good ways of keeping track of references. I
wish we had a way of using pronouns when describing a conversation
between a man and a woman, in Finnish.
> BTW, the phrases "man as a gender" and "her gender" have no meaning.
Yes they have meaning - it's quite clear you understood my intention
:-) though my use of words was not correct.
> The phrases you want are "male as a sex" and "her sex". Words have
> gender. people have sex.
I bet words have small words after having been careless while having
gender... ok, I'll shut up and stand corrected, thanks. And go to
sleep, its six in the morning and I haven't yet slept a bit.
Antti-Juhani
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