[Ads-l] “Neutrality”

[Wilson Gray]

> I think the issue for many jobs is the use of "man" presumes "it's a man's
> job" and women can't do it.

I don't. But, OTOH, I think that _n-word_ sucks donkey dick. "Different
strokes..."

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 5:19 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the issue for many jobs is the use of "man" presumes "it's a man's
> job" and women can't do it.
>
> I can imagine women combating that presumption prefer the gender neutral
> term to "man". I can also imagine those not having to fight the presumption
> don't care as much.
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 3:40 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > We've been through this before.
> >
> > Why would I care?
> >
> > Except that I'd have been told  to.
> >
> > Around 1979, about when the "neutrality" craze began, I asked the women
> in
> > my class how many found generic "man" to be sexist.  Only two out of
> about
> > a dozen. When asked, their reason was that a high-school English teacher
> > had told them so.
> >
> > Several years later, I tried it on another class, and the objections were
> > unanimous.
> >
> > BTW, no female journeyman will see her pay raised or find herself safer
> > from predators by changing the word.
> >
> > JL
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 3:12 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > If you were a woman journeyman, would you appreciate being called a
> > > “journeyman”? BB
> > >
> > > > On 19 Jul 2019, at 09:04, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Aren’t most -man/-men words neutral?
> > >
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