[clug] What? There's women on this list! Since when?! [WAS: Google compared to latest Microsoft evilness]

[Lana Brindley]

Further to the point, yes, I understand that language changes. I'm all in
favour of it, and have written a fairly large number of articles about the
fact, too.
By that same rationale, it's about time we started to lose the gender-laden
terms from our language, and start to act in a less misogynistic
and exclusive manner. Especially on lists where it would be nice to see some
more participation from under-represented groups (including, but not limited
to, women).

L

2009/7/11 steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>

> What do you call you women friends on other lists?
>
> Are they your 'mates'?
> For me that term came from the country and WW II and was male, but terms
> (like 'gay') get overloaded with new meanings...
>
> And the beat goes on :-)
>
> cheers
> steve
>
>
> Lana Brindley wrote on 11/7/09 10:57 AM:
> > 2009/7/11 Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au>
> >
> >> People
> >>
> >> We are way off topic here but...
> >>
> >> What is the argument about? Last time I counted it was actually a fair
> bet
> >> to assume 'male' on this list. Regardless of what some of you feel, this
> is
> >> a fact. So I expect that whatever term we use most will read 'male'
> anyway.
> >
> >
> > You can assume all you like. But I'm not male. And I don't appreciate
> people
> > assuming that I am.
> >
> > You might read 'male' for things on this list. But I don't.
> >
> > There's nothing that is discussed on this last that is exclusively
> > male-related.
> >
> > L
> >
>
>
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Cheers! Lana

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be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time
to read reviews.
 - William Faulkner

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