RE: Pet Peeves

["Dori Green" <dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com>]

Rule of thumb:  congrats, everybody found it.  It might be innocuous to a
white middle-aged upper-income male, where it absolutely is not innocuous to
a survivor of domestic abuse or someone whose great-grandfather was owned.
Survivors and slave descendents have told us that they don't want to see
this phrase any more.  That should be all that's needed.

A good presentation about the importance of the influence of language as
well as its literal (or contextual) meaning can be found at
http://chancellor.tennessee.edu/facultyhandbook/appendix4.shtml .

Dog and pony show:  from
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104-7187271-2415965?url=search-alias%3D
aps&field-keywords=handbook+of+non-sexist+writing, _The Handbook of
Non-Sexist Writing_ -- wow, it's very popular so it's been tremenously
sanitized on the 'net.  The original very popular Victorian stage shows
involved dogs, ponies, and women.  Nuff said.  It's a phrase we don't need.

Dori Green



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