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- From: djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist hypocrites
- Message-ID: <38052@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 03:46:24 GMT
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- In article <BzMxsK.HnF@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
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- # Those who oppose words such as "stewardess", "heroine", "hostess"
- # are hypocrites. Their explanation is that these words further the
- # notion that being a man is the norm and being a woman is a deviant.
- # i.e. there aren't different words for the male *and* the female.
- # Yet, they accept the word "woman". The word "woman" comes from
- # "man". (wif-man or literally "wife of man")
- #
- # I feel disgusted.......Bah!
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- # Mandar.
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- You're not just worried that someone might object to your name, are
- you, Mandar?
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- David Johns
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