Re: Gender Issues

Subject: Re: Gender Issues
From: "Williams, Diane (contractor)" <Williams_Diane -at- DOTE -dot- OSD -dot- MIL>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:45:00 -0400

>> [Do] you think it is OK to change texts/quotes to avoid using the
generic "he"?<<

No, not if it's a direct quote of something well-known. But I do
appreciate Jean-Luc Picard's change in attitude of space exploration
over James T. Kirk's: "To boldly go where no one has gone before."
;-)

~~Diane

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