RE: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?

Subject: RE: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?
From: "Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:25:13 -0500


Well, excuuuuuz me, David, but there are those among us who strongly object to the killing of birds with stones--or by any other means, for that matter. What has any bird ever done to you to justify your speciesist hubris? What makes you think you can just tromp all over the planet, willy-nilly, plonking birds just because you got up on the wrong side of the bed or something? Sheesh!


"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> wrote:

>
>Well, I vote for casting the material in the second person wherever possible, because it kills two birds with one stone. It avoid the gender problem and addresses the user directly, thus getting rid of that snooty academic third-person thing.
>


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