In Arachnia as it is spoken on Nepiy, she is the pronoun for all sentient individuals of whatever species who have achieved the legal status of woman. The ancient, dimorphic form he, once used exclusively for the genderal indication of males (cf. the archaic term man, pl. men), for more than a hundred-twenty years now, has been reserved for the general sexual object of she, during the period of excitation, regardless of the gender of the woman speaking or the gender of the woman referred to.

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