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Re: Male/female/other


From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Subject: Re: Male/female/other
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:21:25 +0200
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Han-Wen Nienhuys writes:

> I think that hand-engraving dates from the time that women did not
> participate much in professional life

Indeed, so wouldn't using 'he' instead of 'she' here not be extra
unkind to the [very few] women who were engravers?  I'm not sure there
were none.

>, so I find this sentence rather awkward.


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