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Old 04-23-2011, 01:11 PM
DrPhil DrPhil is offline
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Originally Posted by Drolefille View Post
So, now I've seen it twice....
As long as you can no longer claim that you've never heard of it.

And I can't claim that I've never heard of "coed as a noun" being used in an offensive context or people being offended by it. That's despite the fact that people in my real life professional and personal encounters (feminists included) use "coed as a noun" for the reasons I discussed earlier, and also to discuss both men and women, without negative connotation.

/so let it be written, so let it be done

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Originally Posted by Drolefille View Post
But ok, if you insist.
Correct. The purpose and perceived utility behind uni-sex institutions is the same regardless of people's opinions of their religious or non-religious foundations; accreditation or non-accreditation; relevance; and size of student population.

Last edited by DrPhil; 04-23-2011 at 01:20 PM.
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