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guys != gender neutral
- Subject: guys != gender neutral
- From: mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:43:21 -0400
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Given that this thread started out as a query re. a "really nasty
attack," and resulted in:
5 on-topic responses (2 of which also commented on "guys")
>20 responses re. "guys" (I stopped counting)
It occurs to me that maybe "morons" or "idiots" might be an appropriate
gender-neutral framing.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra