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Re: guys != gender neutral

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Sep 28 12:16:18 2012

Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:15:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <F4F261F1-19C4-44C0-84EF-CD1CCF6C3EAE@eparsonage.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Parsonage" <eric@eparsonage.com>

> The assumption of a 1-1 correspondence between gender and sex is old
> fashioned nowadays.

Mammals have sex.

*Words* (and only words) have gender.

Cheers,
-- jra
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