RE: Once again, what's a PASSLQ.

Joe Barrera (joebar@MICROSOFT.com)
Sun, 15 Jun 1997 13:46:30 -0700


Really, should be Person of *an* appropriate sex. To imply that there is
a single ("the") appropriate sex is exclusionary to bisexuals.

:-)

- Joe

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-----Original Message-----
From: adam@cs.caltech.edu [SMTP:adam@cs.caltech.edu]
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 1997 1:34 PM
To: FoRK@pest.w3.org
Subject: Once again, what's a PASSLQ.

A FoRKee writes in...

> You'll have to remind me what passlq stands for... I recall
> Adam using it for Michelle but that's about it.

From http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/LOCAL/faq-adam.html#passlq
we find out:

To paraphrase William Safire, a PASSLQ is a Person of the
Appropriate
Sex Sharing Living Quarters. Safire invented the word to
counter a word