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Subject:Re: Gender Neutrality in California From:"Gary S. Callison" <huey -at- interaccess -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:04:40 -0600 (CST)
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, tgr -at- lanminds -dot- com wrote:
> Political correctness was becoming such a bother in California that we
> outlawed people having different genders. Now people wear gray, shapeless
> clothing and shave their heads. The only names allowed are
> gender-ambiguous, like Pat, Nicky(i), Bobby(i), Francis(es) and
> Tony(i). Makes life easier.
Thanks so very much to whoever originally posted 'The Jane Austen
Defense'. That's something I intend to use at every available
opportunity.
This in contrast with my earlier strategy whenever someone attempted
to use 'sie' or 'hir' in my presence, which was "pull the lever, releasing
the sixteen-ton weight suspended from the ceiling, which then falls and
kills them instantly".
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