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From: William.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: ON PUBLIC RELATIONS
Message-ID: <15660@handicap.news>
Date: 15 May 91 17:00:28 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

To: cmfaltz@phoenix.princeton.edu (Christine Marie Faltz)

 CM>         William Wilson is generally a thoughtful person with
 CM>     regard to his blindness, but his intention to say "Excuse
 CM>  me, sir or madam," simply because he fears a sighty's
 CM>  astonishment at his knowledge of his/her gender is more than
 CM>  disturbing.  Why not just say "Excuse me" without any direct
 CM>  personal references?

Christine Marie,
     That message, madam, was what is called a joke!  I seldomly really
give gender acknowledgement  when I reply to a person, and when I do, it
is usually with sarcasim in my voice!
I guess it is because I remember the days when terms like sir and madam
were used to show respect!
     By the way, you want to talk disturbing, I find it more than a tad
disturbing that the person who was so outraged by our use of the word
blink in this echo can refer to people as "sighty's" without batting an
eye!
                                                        Willie

... BlinkTalk, Dr. Deb and Silver in Pittsburgh!

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