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Help wanted with gender neutral language

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Philo, I have no idea what you're talking about. Would you care to elaborate please. Thanks.
Posted by courageous, Sunday, 13 February 2011 8:29:38 PM
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courageous,
You said, "But of course the old style Neanderthals amongst us are still too thick to realise that the gender language they've been using all along is as PC as it's possible to get. The poor old timers don't like hearing that because the truth hurts".

I say nonsense the term, "Ladies and gentlemen" places the female gender of the human species in the highest esteem and only recognises their gentle male partners and ignores the bully boys and chauvinists among the assembly; Unless you mean that males are discriminated against is PC.

Most legal documents have "male" or "female" as identifies of the gender of the human species. Perhaps you prefer an asexual non gender identifier.
Posted by Philo, Monday, 14 February 2011 7:09:31 AM
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That's the real problem. Right there.

>>There must be literally hundreds of lobby groups and government departments (Whoops! Sorry ) governBODIES departAREAS hanging out for someone like you<<

Think how much of us taxpayers' hard-earned is being flushed down the dunny on pointless "gender ishoos".

Rather than impose a levy to fund the reconstruction of Queensland, we should close down all these self-righteous, value-free bureaucratic sheltered workshops.

We'd have a budget surplus the size of Uluru in no time.
Posted by Pericles, Monday, 14 February 2011 8:31:35 AM
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Don't forget that people who prefer the old language (where terms like "man" refer to both men and women when describing our species) are no less self righteous about their old fashioned PC language than people who are trying to change that language.

No language is ever fixed in stone. Change is a part of life. The old fashioned PC male dominated language of the past had to change eventually. All language eventually changes. These days society is far more aware, cosmopolitan and intelligent and the language change will continue.

Of course there will still be a few self righteous people who will try to cling to their PC old language norms. I guess those old dears need the comfort, God bless them.
Posted by courageous, Monday, 14 February 2011 12:07:07 PM
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[Deleted. Appears to be sock puppet for Courageous.]
Posted by JuliaGillardHasFailed, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 4:21:52 PM
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