Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!udel!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: sexist language Message-ID: <410@mccc.UUCP> Date: 18 Nov 88 18:30:29 GMT References: <17574@adm.BRL.MIL> <4801@bsu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Organization: The College On The Other Side of U. S. Route 1 Lines: 26 In article <4801@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: =(I suppose this needs a good followup-to header, but which one?) = =In article <17574@adm.BRL.MIL> rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes: =>I suppose we should bring up the distinction of =>Miss/Mrs. vs having only Mr. for men. = =This is not an arbitrary distinction. Men have always done the =courting and the women have always waited to be asked. Thus the =practice developed (in more than one language, in more than one =culture, in more than one era) of single women identifying themselves =as such, so that men would know whom to court and whom to leave alone. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ =-- =Rahul Dhesi UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi So we could say that this has been a partial success, then??? But then why has the parallel practice - Master/Mister - died? -- Pete Holsberg UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh Mercer College CompuServe: 70240,334 1200 Old Trenton Road GEnie: PJHOLSBERG Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800