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To: Janice Shell who wrote (656)	1/7/1998 7:42:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 4710

Thank you thank you thank you. While it is a question of style or perhaps semantics, the misappropriation of the term "gender" has me in a state of perpetual bunch-pantiedness. Gawd, this morning I even heard an anchordude on Nat'l Public Radio refer to the caller's "gender". Can we start a nasty letter campaign or something? I mean, NPR ougtta be a bastion, yea a redoubt for the English language. Particularly when they're not reading it offa some teletype and have some poor benighted Reuters hack to take the fall. The Joy of Gender

To: Janice Shell who wrote (656)	1/8/1998 9:00:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Janice, >>"Gender" is properly applied to grammatical constructs, not to people. I couldn't agree with you more about gender. I guess it sounds better to some than sex, because that may be confused with "you know what." But gender should be a grammatical concept and not necessarily related to maleness or femaleness. My son, home from college, had a good putdown for those who use "gender" for "sex". When he heard someone on TV say that a woman had been discriminated against because of her gender, he replied. "Maybe she was also discriminated against because of her declension." But, that said, we are whistling into the wind (to Bowdlerlize a common expression.) "Gender" is PC, nowadays, like "chairperson" or, worse, "chair", so let's get used to it. Jack