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Re: Gender bias (was Evolving language or laziness)
Subject:Re: Gender bias (was Evolving language or laziness) From:Mike Stiles <mstiles -at- CYMBAL -dot- AIX -dot- CALPOLY -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:07:20 -0800
This is going way, way off topic, but:
On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Tim Altom wrote:
> My whole point is that even language that gives offense to a minority is
> not, ipso facto, wrong, ill-advised or subject to immediate change. There
> are always subunits of society that are put off by actions or language of
> the majority, but that is not, by itself, a reason to change anything.
Actions, Tim? You mean sitting in the back of the bus? Separate
drinking fountains? I can see that some "subunits" of our society
might be "put off" by those. I'm sorry, there ARE reasons to change some
things, including the generic pronoun he.
