I must also admit that I've gotten into similar trouble for critiquing some of the canons of gender-neutral language, the worst case being when I responded to criticism for referring to my wife as "my wife".

Herb


Subject:        Re: Rule of Thumb
I AM SOOOOO SORRY TO HEAR YOUR STORY!!!  My deepest sympathies to you
and all who still think.  And to think that academia was a bastion of
critical thinking.

Rebecca

On Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 12:21  PM, Kathleen M. Ward wrote:

> Rebecca,
>
> It's not that I don't agree with you.  I do.  However, if I did any
> of this stuff, I'd be fired.  Being offended is enough for people to
> lodge protests; it's the fact that the protest has been lodged
> (rather than the validity of the protest) that counts.  Remember what
> happened to the guy (was it in D. C.?) who used the word "niggardly."
>
> After the Picnic Day fallout, I am a little sensitive on the subject.
> I've also been called on the carpet by an associate dean for telling
> a student that she "had to be willing to do the work" in class.
>
> It's a new, and not better, world.
> KMW
>
>
>
>> On Thursday, August 26, 2004, at 11:32  AM, Kathleen M. Ward wrote:
>>
>>> When I used the term in passing in
>>> class, people objected. They may be wrong, but they are offended.
>>> And telling them  that they are wrong does not make them less
>>> offended.
>>>
>>
>> Are you saying that ignorance should now be able to dictate just under
>> 400 years of actual usage?  This political correctness has got to
>> stop.
>>  Tell your students that they are there to GET an education, not to
>> reinforce wild-eyed misconceptions.  And to lighten up a little.
>>
>> Rebecca Watson
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