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What gets me is that though many people fly off the handle at "girl or "boy"
(rightfully, perhaps, unless we are speaking of the pre-pubescent), no one
seems bothered by the imperialistic "lady" or "gentleman". In a democratic
society, those seem equally onerous.
Leonard Porrello
Compaq, Telecom Division
Pubs, Omaha
402.384.7390
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 12:02 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Response to Documentation Girls Flaming
>
> Sorry, Melissa...I'm with you.
>
> These are the same people that feel that "best boy" would be denigrating
> to those in the movie-making field...even when it's accepted, nobody who
> is called it minds, and everyone in that particular environment knows it
> to be exactly what it is.
>
> If everyone involved is OK with it, knock yourself out. I've said before
> that this PC thing can get carried away.
>
> >
> > >>> Melissa Conniff <mconniff -at- CSC -dot- COM> 08/11 10:26 AM >>>
> > Gang,
> >
> > I've asked an honest question and the majority of responses have been
> > to flame me
> > for using the term "girls". Get a life folks! It was not meant in a
> > degrading
>
>
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> "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good
> poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few
> reasonable words.", Goethe
> "Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader
> will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will
> certainly misunderstand them.", John Ruskin
>
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