sexist language

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Fri Dec 2 12:46:49 AEST 1988


In article <17669 at adm.BRL.MIL> rbj at nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>In the meantime, decode the following: nite, tho, enuf, grafix, alfa.

Curiously, I first read the last word as `alfalfa'.

I should also point out that `Man hours', whether sexist or not, is
`speciesist'.  After all, half my hours are Elf-hours....

( :-) ? )
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