22 May
1993
22 May
'93
3:10 a.m.
On Thu, 20 May 1993, J. Michael Diehl wrote:
I've always thought that fighting over this kind of trivia was kinda childish. It used to be that when someone said, "...and one giant step for mankind...," that we understood this to include EVERYBODY! Lets pick our fights better than this, shall we?
Unfortunatly for you (in a small way), people teaching English do not agree. I have done more than my share of term papers and articles and in the cases where I have used "man" for "humanity," it HAS been noticed. There is no reason NOT to use gender neutral terms. It isn't going to hurt you to do so and some people out there will appreciate it and will notice if gendered terms are used. Why not then? Wassail, Al Billings