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From: PAUL E. DONIGER [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 7:08 PM
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Subject: Re: Rule of ThumbHerb,I wonder how the same people would react to your wife if she referred to you as "my husband!"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.?) w! ho 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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