www/philosophy kind-communication.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       18/10/24 13:44:35

Modified files:
        philosophy     : kind-communication.html 

Log message:
        Rewrite the footnote so people will not get the impression
        it discriminates about gender.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/kind-communication.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.5&r2=1.6

Patches:
Index: kind-communication.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/kind-communication.html,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -b -r1.5 -r1.6
--- kind-communication.html     14 Oct 2018 09:30:24 -0000      1.5
+++ kind-communication.html     24 Oct 2018 17:44:34 -0000      1.6
@@ -121,10 +121,13 @@
 <ol>
   <li id="f1">
     <p>There are various ways to express gender neutrality in
-      third-person singular pronouns in English; you do not have to
-      use &ldquo;they.&rdquo;  One other method is described in
+      third-person singular pronouns in English.  One method, used by
+      many, is singular use of &ldquo;they.&rdquo;  Another method is
+      described in
       <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html";>
-        https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html</a>.</p>
+        https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html</a>.
+      (Using &ldquo;he or she&rdquo; fails to respect gender
+      identities other than male and female.)</p>
   </li>
 </ol>
 
@@ -185,7 +188,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/10/14 09:30:24 $
+$Date: 2018/10/24 17:44:34 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>