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- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
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- From: sfjr@wam.umd.edu (Steve Russell)
- Subject: Forced PC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.171201.28157@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:12:01 GMT
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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:41:48 EST
- From: <REA105@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Forced PC
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- <REA105@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
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- Now on to my topic. PC. Maybe this is the wrong net to place this, but I
- see forced PC see and forced feminism in the same light.
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- Please, Im not being contentious by asking this, but exactly who
- is trying to force exactly what on you?
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- One should not force one's ideas on other's. It is not right to force othe
- rs to submit to thine own method of thinking.
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- I agree. Is it wrong to try to convice someone in a respectful
- manner that they may have unwittingly done this injustice to you?
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- hould not be forced my others to change what I call myself. I am a man and so
- I can be a chairman. Just as a woman can be a chairwoman. It is my right to d
- ecide what I shall call myself. It is not your right. If I want to call mysel
- f white, I can call myself white. If I want to call myself caucasian, I can d
- o so. Forcing me to call you by want you want to be called in not right though
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- Once again, I think you are correct. If a woman wants to be called
- a womyn, not a "girl", if a black wants to be called an african
- american, etc. etc. they should not be forced to call themselves
- something else, just as you should be entitled to call yourself
- a "chairman" if you so wish. If that is your preffered title for
- yourself, others have an obligation out of respect for you to
- call you that, just as in turn you have an obligation out of
- respect to call them what they wish to be called. It works both
- ways.
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- . If I can not call you a woman, can a call you a lady. The word lady used sy
- molize respect, now it seems to refer to someone else. What is it safe to call
- those that have two "X" chromosomes? If I call someone black. I am wrong. I
- f I call the a negro. I am wrong. If I call the an African-American I am wron
- g. What can I call them any of them.
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- Try asking "them". They will respect you for it and treat you
- in kind.
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- Steve Russell
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