From: mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Sexist language
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:18:33 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Dec18.145019.22343@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, J.Theodore.Schuerzing
er@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.014104.9676@midway.uchicago.edu>
>thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
>
>> In article <1992Dec17.210420.23759@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> J.Theodore.Schuerzi
nger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger) writes:
>> >Well I thought it was rather funny -- but I forgot that the politically
>> >correct disallow any sort of humor that can in any way be perceived as
>> >being directed at an 'oppressed minority'.
>>
>> I'm hardly politically correct.  I just have a better sense of humor than
>> you do.
>
>The famous "I'm not wrong, therefore, you automatically are" argument.
>I'm reminded of the Dartmouth bureaucracy, where they say, "We have a
>policy regarding that, so you are autmatically in the wrong."
>>
>> Are your opponents' arguments so strong that the only way you can refute
>> them is to misrepresent them and then make fun of the straw man?
>
>I was trying to show a hypothetical argument -- just because a word
>happens to contain a certain combination of letters, eg. m-a-n or h-i-s
>doesn't mean it's sexist.
>>
>> >In PC-lingo, women count as an 'oppressed minority'.
>>
>> Your school shows plenty of evidence of sexism.  Take a look around you.
>> You don't have to be left-wing to notice it.
>
>When was the last time you were at Dartmouth?  Have you talked with
>lots of average Dartmouth students?  I have, and we know what Dartmouth
>is really like -- we see the same campus 'oppressed minorities'
>protesting everything.  For example, one group protested Columbus Day
>as showing bias against lesbianism.  What did Columbus ever have to do
>with lesbianism?
>
>On a touchier subject, here at Dartmouth, men are more or less 'guilty
>until proven innocent' when it comes to rape.
>
>The campus is run by the typical liberal (I should probably say
>politically correcy) groups as well.  They control Student Asshole (I
>mean Assembly) and try to impeach any members who don't agree with the
>views of the leaders.  Our president, James O. Freedman, who is
>completely out of touch with the students, supports these politically
>correct students.
>
>Excuse me.  I forgot.  We have fraternities here, which makes us
>automatically sexist in the eyes of Ted Frank.
>>
>> >Another point was
>> >to show that it wouldn't necessarily even be desirable to get rid of
>> >all 'sexist' terms.
>>
>> And who called "this" a sexist term?  Other than you, that is?
>
>But 'history' is considered sexist by some feminists simply because it
>begins with the letters h-i-s.  Haven't you heard the word 'herstory'?
>>
>> >(Smileys for the humor-impaired, which I'd guess includes Ted Frank :-)
>>
>> Funny, I keep turning up the brightness control on my monitor, but
>> your post doesn't seem to be getting any more intelligent.
>
>I guess it must have taken an Ivy League education to have understood
>my post.  Or else common sense.
>
>
>--Ted Schuerzinger
>email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
>Smileys where appropriate.
>
Suppose we just beat all of the people who think that the spoken or written
word is being used as a weapon with it.
And the people who scream at the top of their lungs that the spoken or written
word can not be used as a weapon, we beat them with sticks.
I used to think that the anti-PCensorship people were right, by now this whole
thing has gotten so annoying I just don't care any more.

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