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To: Scanian

Pardon the pet peeve moment here —

Dear Maggie,

Words/language have gender, people have sex.

Sincerely,

T-Bird45

— Please carry on with the thread. —

4 posted on 01/23/2010 3:53:48 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)

To: T-Bird45

Words/language have gender, people have sex.

Thank you, that's one of my pet peeves too. And on a thread complaining about leftists destroying education.

13 posted on 01/23/2010 4:56:16 AM PST by ASA Vet (Iran should have ceased to exist Nov 5, 1979, but we had no president then either.)

To: T-Bird45

The reason, I think, is that there are too many people out there that think ‘sex’ is a dirty word and it’s more polite to use ‘gender.’

25 posted on 01/23/2010 6:21:00 AM PST by Moltke (DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)

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