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Mon Mar 29, 2010, 09:57am
Jurassic Referee
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mbyron
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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