[Ads-l] “Neutrality”

[Dan Goncharoff]

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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