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Re: Gender neutrality and the multiple-personality third-person pronoun

Subject: Re: Gender neutrality and the multiple-personality third-person pronoun
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "H. Christopher Christner" <cchris -at- toptechwriter -dot- us>, "TECHWR L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:48:15 -0800

I would have written "himself." The likelihood that a woman would do anything as stupidly macho as firing a gun into the air to celebrate the new year are infinitesimal, as is the
likelihood that even the most stridently politically-correct feminists would want to claim such a nitwit as their own.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- From: "H. Christopher Christner" <cchris -at- toptechwriter -dot- us>

What would you have written if it had been your story?


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