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09-19-2006, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by MysticCat81
I have to admit, macallan, that 'round here if you use "guys" like that, people will assume you've been spending too much time up North. It's considered yankee-speak.
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I say "you guys" all the time.
Is spending too much time up North a bad thing? 
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09-19-2006, 01:08 PM
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I hear "you guys" down South all the time. Oh well.
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09-19-2006, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by macallan25
I hear "you guys" down South all the time. Oh well.
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Are you in Atlanta with a bunch of Northern transplants? That doesn't count.
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09-19-2006, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by macallan25
I hear "you guys" down South all the time. Oh well.
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It's called "male-centered language" and is part of perpetuating a patriarchal and sexist society.
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09-19-2006, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
It's called "male-centered language" and is part of perpetuating a patriarchal and sexist society.
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Or it's because you have to default to something.
Is Spanish sexist because a group of girls plus even one guy is masculine?
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09-19-2006, 02:58 PM
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Dst, please wear a special shirt or something, so that I won't try and hold the door open for you.
on a side note, what school did you go to, PCU?
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09-19-2006, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Dst, please wear a special shirt or something, so that I won't try and hold the door open for you.
on a side note, what school did you go to, PCU?
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I liked that movie.
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09-19-2006, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Dst, please wear a special shirt or something, so that I won't try and hold the door open for you.
on a side note, what school did you go to, PCU?
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Whatever this means.
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09-19-2006, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Is Spanish sexist because a group of girls plus even one guy is masculine?
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Yes.
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09-19-2006, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Yes.
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If there isn't a gender neutral term, using the masculine is automatically sexist? You have to use something! I'm sorry for the years of oppression you must have suffered being called "Los" or by people saying "hey you guys" (even to a group of girls)
That's not sexism...
/Neither is the word "woman"
//"Womyn" is stupid
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09-19-2006, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
If there isn't a gender neutral term, using the masculine is automatically sexist?
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Yes.
Who determined that there had to be a gender neutral term? How did male become the default to the point where female is figuratively (and sometimes literally) invisible in society?
Oh, I get it--it's because Adam was a male and Eve came from his rib..........
Either case, going back and forth with you on this is the same as going back and forth with macallan if you also fail to see the social significance of it all.
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09-19-2006, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
It's called "male-centered language" and is part of perpetuating a patriarchal and sexist society.
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Sorry guys.
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09-19-2006, 05:29 PM
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Sorry guys.
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No problemo, chica.
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09-19-2006, 05:53 PM
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No problemo, chica.
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ROTFL!!! Jokes.
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09-19-2006, 06:43 PM
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ROTFL!!! Jokes.
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Or was it supposed to be "no problema, chica?"
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