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To: E who wrote (33184)	10/16/2001 10:45:12 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Did you stop at all to wonder ... How does he know I am gay? How does he know I am a man? How does he know how I would answer "Who Am I?" The above masculine personal pronouns indicate that you are male. But in this post, you mentioned a husband. ITs possible the he or she (I think she according to an early post) was using "he" in a generic sense. The "How does he know" was an imagined thought that Constant Reader (I think) would have had. If CR did not know the sex of JC traditional English usage would use "he" as the pronoun. More people are starting to use "he or she" but JC might have thought of CR as using the conventional usage. Most people would put in the correct pronoun for themselves instinctually but this wouldn't happen with all people, all of the time. Tim

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