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Date:      Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:48:55 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OT: Is the beastie masculine or feminine?
Message-ID:  <200201081648.g08GmtO29880@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <200201072049.g07KnKw00436@fac13.ds.psu.edu>

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dochawk@psu.edu wrote:
 > Quite frankly, the admitted purpose of PCRE is an Orwellian attempt to 
 > control how people think.

My way of thinking is that females aren't male, so applying
"his" to a female (or to a person which _could_ be female)
seems wrong to me.  That's the way I think, at least; it has
got nothing to do with "control".

(I'm specifically talking about persons here, i.e. human
beings.)

Regards
   Oliver

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