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- From: dwelch@mpd.tandem.com (Dan Welch)
- Newsgroups: soc.women
- Subject: Re: Men & Women, "Males & Females"
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:36:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.132756.13004@news.cs.indiana.edu> alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu (Amy Young Leith) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.110910.24188@hemlock.cray.com> acp@cray.com (Anthony Peterson) writes:
- >
- >> Wouldn't the term males include male dogs, skinks, goldfish,
- >> etc as well as male humans?
- >
- >Perhaps I have too much faith in the usenet readership, but when I am
- >making a post, I assume that the reader has the intelligence enough to
- >figure out whether I'm taling about a human, dog, skink, or goldfish.
-
- What you are talking about isn't the point. Using the term "males" instead
- of "men" indicates that you aren't thinking of them as being first human,
- then male, but rather first male, then human. In other words, their maleness
- is more important than their humanity -- an attitude that is hardly
- beneficial to improving relations between the sexes.
-
- I don't mean you personally, Amy, BTW. But this is my sense of how a
- lot of people feel.
-
- Daniel Welch
-