Re: "he" in emacs manuals [sexist, tisk tisk]

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From: Jens Tingleff
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 1990 07:05

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grackle!bob@AI.MIT.EDU writes:


>   tony4%stretch.cs.mun.ca  (Anthony H. Galway) writes:
[..]

Why not just always write she ;-) I don't think that the use of s/he,
[s]he she/he or anything else is liable to achieve much more than 
confusion.. 

But then again I would, being from Europe ;-)

Writing ``she'' would encourage people to think about what is wrong, rather
than to iritate them (the thing that's wrong is, of course, the lack
of females in the technical groups).

	Jens		(yes, I am male)
Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University
Snail mail: DIKU Universitetsparken 1 DK2100 KBH O
"It never runs around here; it just comes crashing down"
	apologies to  Dire Straits

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