[lit-ideas] Re: Member Issues
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:37:55 +0000 (GMT)
Last time I asked it was Judy I think who
> said, "Yes, we agreed on that a while back. 'They' is
> fine."
certainly sounds like me... I can't see a feminist angle, there's already the
gender-neutral professor, over there.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Fri, 1/10/10, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Member Issues
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, 1 October, 2010, 7:55
>
> On Sep 30, 2010, at 10:37 PM, John McCreery wrote:
>
> > Ah, mon, you'd best not be taking your member out.
> Could get arrested as a pervert.
> >
> > John (laughing hysterically)
>
> Of course I'm hoping to amuse, but the question is
> seriously intended too. The same young and mostly
> female colleagues who have decided to use "they" as a
> gender-neutral pronoun, also refer to "a faculty
> who..." Last time I asked it was Judy I think who
> said, "Yes, we agreed on that a while back. 'They' is
> fine." Maybe there's been another agreement?
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland,
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