Second, if you're being abused it's not by words or by language, it's by people. > Messing around with the language won't stop the abuse. If you want to stop the > abuse you need to do something about the people. > > -- > Cheers, > Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or change their tools of abuse. Make it more difficult for them. I personally believe changing parameters may make people think more and lower misuse and abuse. I.E. Like updating history books to be more inclusive. I think all that type of stuff works. I know when I was growing up feminists were just about NOT in history books. You know, the movement that got women the vote in the US. Another parameter that changed a bit. And those changes do not happen all by themselves -- people have to push for them. And changed parameters do affect people, ergo, change people. In fact, language is one of the basic places to start in changing people's thinking. Like making racist/ethnic/sexist/ageist jokes increasingly unpopular. Marnie aka Doe
