One area that has remained resistant to change is language. ... Graham (1973 in Thorne, Kramarae and Henley 1983, 9-10) conducted a computer analysis of one hundred thousand words from children's schoolbooks and found that "male pronouns outnumbered female ones by almost four to one." ... Once again this is a very obvious objection but the repercussions are larger than one would think. ... This argument is obviously not proposed as a serious answer to the problem (one could expect to have a brick thrown through one's car window very soon if it were). ... Every time it swings it take...

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