From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 8:48:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 783FD37B41D for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 08:48:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g08GmtO29880; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:48:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:48:55 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200201081648.g08GmtO29880@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Is the beastie masculine or feminine? In-Reply-To: <200201072049.g07KnKw00436@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.4-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message