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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: FOM wimps
From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:52:29 -0400
References: <l03130316b60b4c5d0541@[203.87.44.96]>

The proper post-modern revision is quite simple: "The Family of (Wo)Man."

It sings, don't you think.

Chandos





At 06:44 AM 10/12/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>For cryin' out loud, let Alastair call it what he wants. After all, it
>was his idea, and the title ties it to the earlier work. (No
>copyright problems, I trust)
>
>Besides, "man" has been used, longer than we've all been
>around, to indicate the species Homo sapien without regard to
>sex. In fact, the vast majority of dictionaries will have that as
>the first listed of all the definitions of the word.
>
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Chandos Michael Brown
Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies
College of William and Mary

http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown

In reply to: Message from Alastair Firkin <firkin@netconnect.com.au> ([Leica] FOM wimps)