Re: rewording to avoid sexist language on debian page (fwd)
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
and sexism is an important thing to change in every part of the world
.. err ...only if you come from a >>non-sexist<< culture.
There is no absolute universal right or value to say that sexism is wrong.
It depends entirely on the culture in which you live and function.
But to try to enforce your own cultural values on others who differ, *is*
WRONG.
However -- you're right -- this is debian-doc; NOT The Boiler Suit Brigade
Campaign to Forcibly Impress Revisionist Sex-Think and Corrective Language
Habits on Male Chauvinist Pigs.
So let's drop the delightfully absorbing discussion, and see what we can
do to arrive at a compromise between the two points of view, shall we?
and in every second and if change begins at debian documentation then
it is ok.
Only if you're so deluded as to think that by legislating language use you
can change the way people think.
Language will change of its own accord; all debian-doc can do is reflect
this; NOT cause it to occur.
Cheers, guys.
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Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT / AVALONIX - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - UK
msw@startext.co.uk http://www.startext.co.uk/mwheeler/
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