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Name: FeministFemaleProgrammer 2012-06-14 19:29

This document uses the gender-neutral third-person pronouns “person”, “per”, “pers” and “perself” which were promoted, and perhaps invented, by Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time. They are used just like “she”, “her”, “hers” and “herself”, except that they apply equally to males and females. For example, “Person placed per new program under the GNU GPL, to let the public benefit from per work, and to enable per to feel person has done the right thing.”

http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html

Name: Anonymous 2012-06-15 8:18

>>1
This little word person that the treacherous men have tried to slip into the feminist gender-neutral language is actually direly sexist, which is immediately obvious to anybody with even a bit of sanity (that is, to any woman who is not under the influence of male repressive propaganda).

It should be replaced either with ``person/perdaughter'' or with ``perchild``.  Example: Eric Schmidt is the chairperson/chairperdaughter of Google, Inc.

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