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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (30408)	2/7/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

YO, Jim, Expert? Ummm---I don't think so! I wasn't even an English major. Matter of fact, I didn't do well at all in freshman English. BUt I sure do love words. I don't think dictionaries worry much about political correctness, but perhaps those words will someday appear with obs. next to them as people use them less and less? Funny, that list seemed very innocuous to me, perhaps because in reading I heard no sneer or insulting tone of voice. Politically correct vocabulary can be just as demeaning, just as humiliating, just as contemptuous when spoken as those words seem to have become in your (and many others') mind . Words by themselves are harmless. It's we who turn them into weapons. I can still remember a lake vacation when I was about ten and all the summer children were boys. I was "allowed" to participate in the activities, but I can still hear their voices, "She can't do that. SHe's just a GIRL." And I heard in their tones that a girl was an inferior thing to be. That GIRL was a bad word.