From my short experience of explaining/teaching the CRM in English to conservation students, the issue of gender neutral labels has come up a few times. I think it should be discussed as an issue. I think removing "Man-" is a reasonable idea. Just to also note that this is not a problem in labels from other languages. For example, it is not in Greek. Therefore, it is not a matter of bias on gender in the SIG, but a problem with the English language/current interpretation of "man" which we should not ignore.
All the best, Thanasis On 04/04/18 00:45, Robert Sanderson wrote:
Dear all, Given that the names of the classes (and relationships) are not fixed, it would be wonderful if we could rename the classes that have “Man-“ in them to be more gender neutral. In particular, this would result in name changes for: E22 Man-Made Object E24 Physical Man-Made Thing E25 Man-Made Feature E71 Man-Made Thing The smallest possible change would be simply to drop “Man-“ and leave the “Made”, thus E22 Made Object, E25 Made Feature and E24 Physical Made Thing. Alternatively, “Artificial” is synonymous with Man-Made, or to make it into a noun, an “E22 Artifact”, compared with an E25 Artificial Feature and an E71 Artificial Thing. “Produced” would fit in well with Production, but sounds less obvious to me, at least. Other (IMO worse) options could include “Synthetic” (which would be strange for objects made from all natural materials), “Manufactured” (implies industrial scale with machinery), “Constructed” or “Built” (implies a large object such as a building or road). Many thanks for your thoughts, Rob _______________________________________________ Crm-sig mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig
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