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Old Mon Mar 29, 2010, 09:57am
Jurassic Referee Jurassic Referee is offline
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
IMO it's not merely PC. For a very brief, fact-based account of gendered pronouns, see Carolyn Jacobson's (Penn) handout:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~cjacobso/gender.html
The "handbook of non-sexist writing", eh? "Mankind" is now a bad word?

"Fact-based"?

OK.......

This is a no-win argument and a wobw. I'm done.
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