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Athletic budgets. Reading lists. Pronouns in textbooks. All sorts of things have changed since 1972, when Congress outlawed sex discrimination in federally aided schools. But so far, charges the American Association of University Women (A.A.U.W.), reforms have only tinkered with the gender gap. The organization issued a cry of alarm...
Miller Lite will counterattack this week by abandoning the taste-vs.- calories contretemps in favor of a new slogan. "It's It. And That's That," goes the Zen-like outpouring of pronouns. The campaign is the creation of Chicago's Leo Burnett agency, which landed the $110 million Lite...
"Male names are used throughout as are male referent pronouns for persons of agency," said Foley. "Women are rendered completely invisible...except in the single case of one female, who is mugging victim."
Perhaps I should be more fair. The joys of freshman year (sorry, first year, or is it first-year year?) go beyond mere labels. From the minute a young frosh (is that PC?) enters the Yard s/he is absorbed into the Harvard experience, whether or not he or she was...
But this issue is more important than the mere state of the first-year. These problems occur in gasp...Harvard classrooms. I have heard that they extend to everyday speech as well. I propose that we should all alternate the use of male and female references. By switching pronouns throughout...