4.1100 Words: Degendering them (3/45)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 27 Feb 91 20:33:59 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1100. Wednesday, 27 Feb 1991.
(1) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 11:54:08 GMT (13 lines)
From: viden@logos.class.gu.se (Gunhild Viden)
Subject: Re. 4.1095 Degendering ombudsman
(2) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 11:55 EST (17 lines)
From: TRACY LOGAN <LOGANT@lafayett.BITNET>
Subject: inclusive word to replace 'freshman'?
(3) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 13:12 CST (15 lines)
From: Robin Smith <RSMITH@KSUVM.KSU.EDU>
Subject: Anthropologists, not 'andrologists'
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 11:54:08 GMT
From: viden@logos.class.gu.se (Gunhild Viden)
Subject: Re. 4.1095 Degendering ombudsman
As to -man being gender neutral or not: The Swedish
jamstalldhetsombudsman (help yourselves, those of you who maintain
that we use the languages we are most comfortable with! To the rest of
you: Equal Rights ombudsman, equal rights referring to the sexes) is
called just that, and so far she has always been a woman. No one has
ever suggested that she be called -person etc.
Gunhild Viden, univ. of Gothenburg
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 11:55 EST
From: TRACY LOGAN <LOGANT@lafayett.BITNET>
Subject: inclusive word to replace 'freshman'?
The ombuds# discussion evolving out of James Woolley's query
leads me to ask for help with an alternative to "FRESHMAN."
At the (U.S.) colleges I am familiar with, three of the four
classes have inclusive names, at least on the gender dimension:
Sophomore, Junior, Senior. I have been trying to use "Frosh" but
in formal writing it jars others as well as me. "Fresher" seems
not to fly, either. - tracy
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Bitnet : loganT @ LAFAYETT
Internet: loganT @ lafvax.lafayette.edu
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 13:12 CST
From: Robin Smith <RSMITH@KSUVM.KSU.EDU>
Subject: Anthropologists, not 'andrologists'
It's a trivial point, but just for the record: Tom Rusk Vickery
supposes there to be something ironic about a woman identifying herself
as a 'feminist anthro- pologist.' Of course, the Greek word 'anthropos'
itself does not imply male gender (however patriarchal the culture that
used it may have been): the Greeks had 'aner' for that. In fact,
'anthropos' can even be used with a feminine ar- ticle, when the person
to whom it happens to refer is a woman (no less a male supremacist than
Aristotle does that: Eth.Nic. VII.5, 1148b20). I actually don't know
how to Hellenize the irony Vickery thinks he sees (an 'andrologist,' if
there be such a thing, would presumably be a person who studies men and
not women).