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Liz wrote: > is that sexism, of whatever kind, is part of a wider > disease. > well yes - agreed. And v imp to keep working on breaking the mould and appropriating a confidence that doesn't come naturally........ Yes, Liz, in absolute agreement, and while saying that I'd like to emphasise that I don't underestimate the prevalence of male sexism v. women, while I was on holiday I was utterly horrified at myself on two occasions, once, in conversation, I referred to a certain writer as 'a woman poet', what's the distinction I immediately asked myself, while another time I mentioned a guy's newly-wed wife as an 'it'. What was even worse that both she and he laughed at the word. Now I like to think I'm free of such prejudices, but that even a half-soaked gentle twit like me can come out with such comments unconsciously is worrying. Best Dave David Bircumshaw Leicester, England Home Page A Chide's Alphabet Painting Without Numbers http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm