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- Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:11:26 EST
- From: <HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Message-ID: <92361.171126HERSCH@auvm.american.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist language
- References: <92355.112019HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> <38044@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Lines: 38
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- In article <38044@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A.
- Johns) says:
- >
- >In article <92355.112019HERSCH@auvm.american.edu> HERSCH@auvm.american.edu
- >writes:
- ># Published references, please, showing some feminists proposing to
- ># replace the *word* "history" with the *word* "herstory".
- >
- >Cheap debating ploy, Mr. Browne.
-
- Hey, this is Usenet for crying out loud.
-
- >Truth is not born (or borne) on the
- >pages of academic journals.
-
- Well, first, I didn't ask for citations from academic journals.
- I asked for *published* references, since these are the only ones
- I would be able to verify. Mandar is more than capable of merely
- saying "I've heard lots of women say the word 'history' is sexist",
- and then referring back to his assertion endlessly as if it were
- proof of something.
-
- >
- >I too have heard a *few* women object to "history", singing "hymns",
- >etc. It never occurred to me that they represent feminists as a
- >group, but neither did it occur to me that they didn't exist despite
- >the evidence of my senses. Every movement has its lunatic groupies.
- >
-
- I certainly can't argue with your final sentence. As to the rest,
- if you say so. I don't know you, but so far I have no reason to
- doubt your truthfulness. All I can say is that *I* have never heard
- this kind of thing proposed seriously, in print or otherwise.
-
- H.
-
- Herschel Browne
- "The" American University
-