[MR] Brotherhood, sort of...

[Justus]

Fellowship is widely used as a gender neutral term for a feeling of camaraderie, brotherhood, sisterhood,  esprit de corps ect. 
Forgive me if that has already been put forward, I only found a dozen of this topic. : )
-Justushttp://syrjustus.livejournal.com/

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Marybeth Lavrakas <katrous at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Marybeth Lavrakas <katrous at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] Brotherhood, sort of...
To: "Atlantia List" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>, "Jim" <jsfrodo at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 3:06 PM

Although I get a good laugh out of the hoops, I do actually believe the exact opposite of this argument. Times change. Get over it.  (WAIT! Was that ME??!!) duckin' and runnin', Kat Rous

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Jim <jsfrodo at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Jim <jsfrodo at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] Brotherhood, sort of...
> To: "Atlantia List" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 2:06 PM
> 
> Ok, just gotta hop on the soapbox for a moment...
>  
> People keep preaching tolerance, how about a little
> tolerance for the fact that the English language just wasn't
> written for gender-neutrality, and just get over it? 
> Saying "him or her", "he or she", and labelling everyone as
> a "person" just starts to sound a bit silly after a while. 
> Why is it so surprising that the language includes
> gender-specific terms to talk about people?  People have
> genders, that's a simple fact of biology.  Do they matter
> much?  Unless you're talking about which bathroom to use,
> not really.
>  
> When Neil Armstrong said something about "one giant leap
> for mankind", he meant all of us, of whatever
> gender/color/ethnicity.
>  
> The language ain't perfect, but it's the one we've got.
>  
> And I'll probably achieve political correctness about the
> time they start shoveling dirt onto my face.
>  
> ---- Securing from soapbox now -----
> 
> --- On Wed, 9/30/09, Marybeth Lavrakas <katrous at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Marybeth Lavrakas <katrous at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] Brotherhood, sort of...
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 1:34 PM
> 
> 
> Can y'all tell I just recently read the UNC official policy
> on using gender inclusive language?! LOL 
> 
> (boils down to: the male gendered term is not the
> acceptable default anymore, but it takes them 2  detailed
> pages to say so...)
> 
> Kateryn Rous
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