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From: Robert@cartel.westfalen.de (Robert)
Subject: Re: sexist language in German, Chinese and English
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house@helios.usq.edu.au (Ron House) wrote:

>"Peter D. Zohrab" <zohrab@xtra.co.nz> writes:

>>Feminists think it is OK to use a sexist word like
>>"gunman", because the only people it disadvantages is men -
>>- it makes it look as if all people who use guns
>>aggressively are men.

>It actually happened in Australia a few weeks back. After all
>the years of listening to gunMEN doing this and gunMEN doing that,
>the following incident occurred, which I shall describe without
>gender:

>Person A took shopkeeper B hostage with a gun, but policeofficer C
>shot A and rescued B.

>So how was it reported on channel 10 news?

>"A police MAN shot a WOMAN" then in a trailing mumble: "who was
>holding a gun on a shopkeeper mumble mumble."

>>Because I knew about this Code, I wrote to TVNZ and TV3 to
>>complain of the sexist use of the word "gunman" in one of
>>their news programmes.  I suggested that they should use

>Lots o' luck. (You'll need it.)

>-- 
>Ron House.  (house@usq.edu.au)

>Never forget that you are absolutely unique in all the world.
>Just like everybody else.  - anon.

well feminists so i have found are basically women with low
self-estime not in touch with there femal side..and picking on the
"new meaning the found in life" (fighting the outsideworld)..while
trying to act man-like with their typical  "femal" pedantic
narrow-minded mentality;(...

I always wondered why these """"women""""""
never bathered to raise their  voice over sexist
terms ;) like woMAN feMALE..or eMANcipation for crying out
loud;)


Take care

Robert

