> Tad is poetical in his responses often but me thinks he is using "she"
> to obliquely identify one or more of the women on the list. I might
> point out to Tad (as I sometimes get the feeling from his posts that he
> is a pretty confident fellow), that making such statements might be
> received by others as a tad bit insulting. (No pun intended.)
Interestingly, when I read the post in question I noted how the "Use she
as often as he in writing" meme has been gaining ground in the last couple
years. Why should "he" be used as a blanket pronoun when "she" works just
as well? What a great advance for the sisterhood!
An then I wondered how the women on the list (an in the world in general)
would react to this change.
And then you wrote.
-Prof. Tim