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- From: lukoff@carson.u.washington.edu (Fred Lukoff)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Sexist hypocrites
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.174634.18263@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 17:46:34 GMT
- References: <BzMxsK.HnF@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <38052@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
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- In article <38052@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns) writes:
- >In article <BzMxsK.HnF@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- >
- ># 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!
- >#
- >#
- >#
- ># Mandar.
- >
- >
- >You're not just worried that someone might object to your name, are
- >you, Mandar?
- >
- >David Johns
-
- Looks like everyone is just out to get Mandar now rather than reply
- intelligently to his questions.
- Sure, the suffix may seem like the words make men the norm and women
- 'deviant', but what are we then to do, make up words like 'waitron'?
- Or make up words than end in -person? I actually saw a Washington State
- government notice for 'fisherperson' licenses and nearly died. So does
- anyone have any suggestions as to how we can fix this situation, BESIDES
- -person words?
-
- Ben Lukoff
-