In a message dated 95-10-26 21:59:28 EDT, you write:

>Date:    Thu, 26 Oct 1995 20:35:34 -0400
>From:    "Mary Renard BSN, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Gender and language
>
>To Jeffrey Fouche - my apologies.  I do actually routinely use s/he and
>him/her in my writing and I am well aware that there are men who are nurses
>and LCs.  I will plead the very casual style of e-mail for my *faux pas* - I
>can type a LOT faster than I can think! - and hope that no one will make any
>assumptions about any heretofore undetected prejudices on my part.
>
>Mary Renard

Mary,

No offense was taken.  I asure you I was only desiring to make a point!
 Thank you for your response!