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Article: LANGUAGE GADFLY WANTS SEXIST TERMS OUTLAWED.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- April 27, 1990
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Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer
In the battle of the sexes, language is the front line, over which Francine Frank has hoisted the white flag of truce.
The dean of humanities and fine arts at State University at Albany is not as extreme as some feminists on the matter of gender and language, yet neither is she willing to listen silently to sexist usage comfortably bantered about in the old boys' network.
"I guess my position on sexist language could be described as moderate, but insistent," says Frank, who concedes, with some coaxing, that on occasion she has corrected President Vincent O'Leary's persistent generic "he."
Adds Frank, ...