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Posted by SuperFarStucker on Nov-25-2003 05:30:

all that gender jazz

Remember how the generic pronoun "he" was considered sexist, and now we're supposed to write the contraction "s/he" to mean "she or he"? Well, it's pretty clear that this discriminates against nongendered species as well as inorganic objects. Thus I propose the written contraction "s/h/it" to mean "she, he, or it."

a poster from

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=...&tid=186&tid=99

that topic so delicately added to the discussion

Posted by whiskers on Nov-25-2003 05:42:

wow, I read this in a slashdot post "Stop slouching! It's two O'clock in the afternoon, PUT PANTS ON!" and immediately thought...damn, he's right
...now I just need to find my pants

what about the 'species' that are both genders at once?

Posted by Dmatrox on Nov-25-2003 05:43:

now when people refer to God, should it be he/she?

Posted by bassaholix on Nov-25-2003 05:46:

quote:
[i][b]Originally posted by whiskers
what about the 'species' that are both genders at once?

HybriSapiens?

From mixing hybrid and homo sapiens ? Hehehe.. i dunno.

Well nowadays its only when you are writing very intellectual stuff like University reports or shit like that, that you really need to becareful about how you play with things like that.

But out in the real world like if you and me were talking we wouldn't really be bothered, unless you are talking to a librarian or something...

Posted by whiskers on Nov-25-2003 05:48:

yeh, hermafrodites (from hermes & afrodite).... like shemales...

anyway, political correctness can go jump off a 10,000-foot cliff with its head still up its ass, for all i care.

Posted by UWM on Nov-25-2003 06:25:

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
what about the 'species' that are both genders at once?

i.e, Michael Jackson?

Posted by Orbax on Nov-25-2003 06:30:

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
yeh, hermafrodites (from hermes & afrodite).... like shemales...

anyway, political correctness can go jump off a 10,000-foot cliff with its head still up its ass, for all i care.