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by tim_chevalier
6222 days ago
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On this point, I recommend Douglas Hofstadter's "Person Paper on Purity in Language":
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html Hofstadter makes the same point (that words that claim to be both gendered and gender-neutral are never the latter) in a less snarky way in Chapter 7 of his book _Metamagical Themas_, entitled "Changes in Default Words and Images, Engendered by Rising Consciousness". You can find it on Google Books. |
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