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From: davids@iscuva.ISCS.COM (David Schmidt)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,news.admin,soc.women
Subject: Re: A real sweetheart
Message-ID: <1809@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 88 21:58:50 GMT
References: <12624@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA
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In article <12624@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> era1987@violet.berkeley.edu (Mark Ethan Smith) writes:
>[...]
>The "truth" that you think (and all your friends agree) that
>somebody is, in truth, a real sweetheart, is perhaps a defense
>in a defamation suit, but not in a suit for discrimination andor
>harassment if you persist in calling them sweetheart andor referring
>to them as sweetheart, and they object.
>[...]

The difference is that a person being a "sweatheart" is a *VALUE*
judgement.  The fact that you are a female is not a value judgement
(at least not with me).  It is a fact.

The "fact" that a person is or is not a "sweatheart" can be argued
based on an individual's values.  It is a fact that you are a female,
and when referring to you the word "her" is a fact.

I agree that is IS impolite and rude not to abide by your wishes (no
matter what a person thinks of them), but it is not "discriminating".
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