From: TURTLE              
To: DRAGONFLY           
Subject: Whoops...      
Date & Time: 05/04/91 00:26:32
Message Number 16482

>...but we both have close friends of both genders...
 
Of both /sexes/. The word "gender" is properly applied only to
/words/--ie, masculine, feminime, or neuter nouns in German, etc.
People don't have a "gender," they have a /sex/.