[Ads-l] "man" avoidance

[Flourish Klink]

Why is it wrong or weird to say "people" if the fact that they were men is
unimportant to the statement at hand? Certainly their masculinity is not
what shot down the planes. If they were women, it would only be significant
inasmuch as it was unusual for the time, so only worth mentioning if your
point was to discuss sexism or similar. I don't see how this erases history
at all.

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016, 10:09 AM Marc Sacks <msacksg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Last night, my wife referred to two of her students as "male-identified."
> Oh, I innocently asked, were they trans, gay, genderfluid? No, she replied,
> just male. She was reporting her discomfort after innocently referring to
> them as "guys." I'm not sure how serious she was; I don't think she was
> either.
>
> Marc Sacks
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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: "man" avoidance
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> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Benjamin Barrett <
> mail.barretts at gmail.com
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> > > =E2=80=9C311 mostly male people=E2=80=9D
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> > "311 men and women"?
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> > -Wilson
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> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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