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To: PROCON

Just give every kid a serial number, like that Finn character in “Star Wars” had before he became Finn. I assume a number is gender-neutral but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that an academic somewhere might find bias in numbers too.


16 posted on 08/26/2016 6:54:49 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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0 and 1 could be have issues...


28 posted on 08/26/2016 7:04:43 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

“I assume a number is gender-neutral but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that an academic somewhere might find bias in numbers too.”

http://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/are_numbers_gendered


37 posted on 08/26/2016 7:13:41 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Just give every kid a serial number, like that Finn character in “Star Wars” had before he became Finn. I assume a number is gender-neutral but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that an academic somewhere might find bias in numbers too.


70 posted on 08/26/2016 7:38:57 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra."--President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Just give every kid a serial number... a number is gender-neutral but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that an academic somewhere might find bias in numbers too.

Reminds me of a trip I took to Ireland some time after the mad-cow disease thing forced farmers to destroy their cattle. I visited a farm and all the cows had number tags on their ears. The farmer told me that after having destroyed his former herd, he no longer called his cows by name; it was too emotionally difficult.

The totalitarian instinct is to kill off everything loving and empathetic within us. We can't even love our God-given gender, which is the Second Gift given us by Him after the First Gift, which is being made in His image as a child of God.

76 posted on 08/26/2016 7:56:24 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("They only smear who they fear." --Diamond and Silk)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican; PROCON

Only the even numbers are gender neutral. Think about it...


85 posted on 08/26/2016 9:23:06 AM PDT by HeadOn (Cruz lost me. Two words, just two words - "Vote Trump" - and he couldn't say them.)
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