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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!bcm!convex!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!PSYCH.PURDUE.EDU!JOPPA
  3. Message-ID: <9211111724.AA01365@psych.purdue.edu>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.psycgrad
  5. Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:24:00 EST
  6. Sender:       "Psychology Graduate Students Discussion Group List"
  7.               <PSYCGRAD@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
  8. From:         "(Margaret Joppa)" <joppa@PSYCH.PURDUE.EDU>
  9. Subject:      Re: Sexism and language a la Preferenti
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  12. The American Heritage dictionary defines male as "the sex CAPABLE of
  13. fertilizing ova or begetting young."  Where is the "capable of" in
  14. Webster?  A.H. also defines female as "the sex that produces ova or
  15. bears young."  Better would be to define female as " the sex that
  16. produces ova and has the capacity to bear young.
  17. Margaret
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