[MR] speaking of which...

[R. B. Irvin]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Virginia E. Liles wrote:

> 
>   When you choose to use non-inclusive language (male And Female), as our
> culture teaches you, you are being inexact and sometimes unintentionally
> offensive.  Man does not equal human; woman does not equal unable. Our

Were I in the mood to be offended (as opposed to being really bored) 
I would take issue at the implied contention that men are not human. 
However, there are individuals that prompt me to wonder...


> Culture Still teaches this male centric language with its assumptions
> slowly slipping but a Norm in our culture(hell you try fighting back
> hampered by long skirts) 

Now *there* is a topic for Midieval and later social research: How 
would the adoption of ranged weapons (arrows, bolts, bullets, etc.) 
in English warfare have affected the position of women in Anglophile 
society? A skirt doesn't exactly hamper firing a crossbow or a 
handgonne.




Brion Gennadyevich