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- From: uhde@ollie.jsc.nasa.gov (Jo Uhde)
- Subject: Re: Radical feminists
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.183805.26052@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA/ Johnson Space Center
- References: <1992Dec22.030111.25846@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <725097282snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:38:05 GMT
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- In article <725097282snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz>, hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson) writes:
- >
- >
- > In article <1992Dec22.030111.25846@bmerh85.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca writes:
- >
- > > branded a "radical feminist" for preferring "persons" to "men (including
-
- I can't _wait_ to tell my friend Chakravarthi (Chucks) that he is a radical
- feminist! To show that all Indians are not as humor (humour?) impaired as
- Mandar is, I will relate the following exchange between Chucks, and another
- Indian friend, Vaman:
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- CHUCKS: Vaman, you must change your name in order to be PC.
-
- VAMAN: Why? What is wrong with my name?
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- CHUCKS: Well, your name ends in "man" and that might offend some women.
- You must change your name to "Vaperson".
-
- VAMAN: Okay, Vaperson it is.
-
- CHUCKS: No Vaperson, that is still not quite right. Your name still ends in
- "son" which implies the male sex. You must change your name to
- Vaperchild, then you will be PC.
-
- VAMAN: Vaperchild is fine, but I am still not totally PC. Vaperchild ends
- in "child". Am I not now guilty of ageism?
- >
- > Time for another thread. Why is it that "persons" seems to be rising
- > in popularity at the expense of "people"? To me it seems much more
- > impersonal, treating people as mere population units.
-
- I would also like to know the reason for the rise of this usage.
- In PC "churchspeak", at least in the Episcopal diocese of Newark, NJ,
- gay people are _always_ referred to as "gay persons".
-
-
- DrJo *** uhde@ollie.jsc.nasa.gov
- -- Not much of a sig, but it _is_ my NASA nickname.
- -- Please, apply all of the usually disclaimers. I don't want to be sent
- -- into orbit in the (unpressurized) cargo bay of the Orbiter.
-
- >
- > ----------------------------------------------
- > Phil Anderson *** hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz
- > ----------------------------------------------
- > "No-one is equal to anyone else!"
- >
- >
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