[Ads-l] Carrying "gender equality" too damned far!

[Jonathan Lighter]

You mean "term doctor."

Don't take my word for it:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:List_of_protologisms/third_person_singular_gender_neutral_pronouns

JL

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 9:15 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

> and abortion is strictly a matter between the patient and his doctor.
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Facebook "news" headline:
> >
> > "Adele: Singer-Songwriter Tells Critic to 'Suck My D---' While On Stage
> at
> > Concert, Video Shows"
> >
> > Perhaps the critic would have preferred to do its sucking in a
> less-public
> > venue.
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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