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- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.214005.1605@netcom.com>
- Organization: People's Front of Judea
- References: <1992Dec21.164230.17150@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1992Dec21.185313.19414@netcom.com> <1992Dec21.193904.24017@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:40:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.193904.24017@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark) writes:
- >Quoting Ms. Manners:
-
- I've heard a lot about how we should respect people's tastes and
- preferences. Well, Miss Manners has made it abundantly clear that
- she prefers to be addressed, and referred to, as "Miss Manners",
- not "Ms. Manners" (in contradistinction to her writer, who (I
- believe) goes by "Ms. Judith Martin").
-
- Why is it any less rude to ignore her wishes by calling her "Ms.
- Manners", than it would be to (for instance) refer to Melinda
- Shore as "Miss Shore"?
-
- Or do we respect only those preferences with which we happen to
- agree?
- --
- Andrew Solovay
- "I know that, in America and under capitalism,
- I am the freest woman in history."
- --- Camille Paglia
-