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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Sexist" language rerun
Message-ID: <561@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Aug-83 15:22:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 16 15:22:05 1983
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With regard to the request for speakers, I do not speak any of the mentioned
languages, but I am somewhat familiar with manderin chinese.  Chinese is 
about as genderless a language as can be imagined, yet in spite of years of
effort in mainland china the society is still very sexist.  Thus I see no
tie here between a non-sexist language and a non-sexist society.

While I am on the subject (I generally try to stay out of this groups
discussions) I will add my comments on teis whole topic:

	I think the whole attempt to change the english language to
	be "non-sexist" by changing words like chairman to chairperson
	and manhours to personhours has done more to damage the women's
	movement in my eyes than any other single area of concern.  If
	anything, I would rather see a new term invented for the male
	of the species than to see miserable aberrations brought upon
	the whole of society.  

d. stanwyck : ..!ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck : (312) 979-6667 : btl @ naperville, il