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>Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:04:15 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "William  Cody" <[email protected]>
>
>I was not saying the writer HAD to add it, just saying I would.  If I were
>reading a story, the sex of the characters lets you think of the character
>clearly.  I enjoyed the story, and in my comments I made a SUGGESTION that
>would enhance the readers experience.  I've said my piece.

If you want to think of the character more clearly, why not also request
height, weight, skin-color, relative intelligence, clothing, sexual
preference... There are a million things that are part of one's perception
of a story character, and most of them are irrelevant in telling a story.
It happens that English forces us to give the sex of characters (or start
writing more and more stiltedly to avoid it), so English-readers have grown
accustomed to that piece of information, but in the story in question, are
the genitals of the people any more relevant in picturing them than their
height?  Do they matter to the story?  It's for the writer to decide.

~mark

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