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- From: mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi)
- Subject: Re: Radical feminists
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:22:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.235322.14850@bmerh85.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) writes:
- >In article <Bzoo4r.830@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> mmmirash@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mandar M. Mirashi) writes:
- >>
- >>The motive which drives me is the prevention of wicked assaults carried
- >>out by misguided, radical feminists on the English language.
- >
- >Mandar, I'm one of the people who wishes to "reform" the English
- >language to help reduce its inherent sexism. So you can't say you
- >haven't called me a "misguided, radical feminist", as you claimed in
- >another post. You've made it very clear what you think of people who
- >don't share your views on language.
- >
-
- I would consider you to be a person who's misguided by radical feminists.
-
-
- [...lines where she calls me a prescriptivist, deleted....]
-
-
- I am not a prescriptivist. But I am against "artificially"
- reforming language. Let the language take its own course. Let the
- speakers use it as they would wish to. We don't need any radical
- feminists to brainwash us into thinking that some word is sexist,
- and some other isn't, and so, the latter should be used instead
- of the former. As long as there are people who don't find these
- words sexist, nor have any intention of using them to demean
- women, there is no justification for dropping the use of these
- words.
-
- > The Rhealist - nadeau@bnr.ca - Speaking only for myself
-
- Mandar.
- --
- "Imagine there's no countries. It isn't hard to do. Nothing to kill or die
- for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
- You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some
- day you'll join us, and the world will be as one." - John Lennon.
-