On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, arne anka <openm...@ginguppin.de> wrote: >> I think it could be just historical. Nowadays, you should act the same >> regardless of the gender of the person you're talking to or about except >> in some situations. At least in a perfect world, where a >> worker/colleague of either gender is considered the same value. > > what exactly has one's value to do with the gender or the pronoun you are > using to refer to him or her? > your proposition is based on the assumption that one gender is less > valueable than the other, hence, using the male or female pronoun would > express a judgement.
To me it seems obvious that ones own impression of something is heavily based on the language you use (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis). If you make a difference between two persons (by assigning them different genders) you will also put values on the difference even if it isn't your intention. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
