Re: question on pronoun debate

Subject: Re: question on pronoun debate
From: "Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 16:12:30 -0400

Amid all the debate, I find it interesting that Lourdes Flores, a South American woman, actually has a shot at the presidency of Peru. Might it be possible that the difficulty we are having with the "singular they" emphasizes how strange we find male/female inclusiveness?

I'm not putting this very well: in (corporate) cultures accustomed to assigning roles based on skill and aptitude, not gender, is this still a problem?

Karen Black
(Can now add riding a horse to my been-there-done-that list)
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