Re: virus: Nature of Information

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sat, 18 Oct 1997 11:45:37 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Marie Foster wrote:

> 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