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From: mason@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Mason)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Sexist" language rerun
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Date: Sat, 20-Aug-83 02:21:08 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 20 02:21:08 1983
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"...not the language..it's the people you need to change."

If we could change the people we wouldn't need to worry about the language
but we can't change the people, soooo... we change the language.
We can't make people accept people of other races, soooo... we bus the
children together.

It seems to me that in the process of changing the language (a very public
undertaking) we may manage to change the people, just as (I think although
from here it's hard to tell) racial tension *SEEMS* to be decreased and 
racial equality *SEEMS* to be making some headway perhaps as a result of
the awareness created by the bussing issue even though no children bussed
have yet made it to positions of importance.

On the other hand, rather than wholesale changing every word in the language
that has the syllable 'man' in it we should make a counterpart to woman, perhaps
loman (just went thru the alphabet & it sounded OK).

 -- Gandalf's flunky Hobbit --   Dave Mason, U. Toronto CSRG,
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