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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (14375)12/22/1997 12:12:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
What's got me wondering is how and when it suddenly became ok to use a narrow grammatical term ("gender") as a euphemism for sex. I shall actively resist this dilution of the language in the service of an ill-defined delicacy. I get pretty peeved at forms (like insurance paper) which ask me my gender. Why don't they follow through and inquire about my declension?

Folks, people have sexes. Only nouns have genders.
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