Theos-Talk Archives (October 1996 Message tl00416)

Dr. A.M.Bain writes:
>In message <199610160307.XAA27311@envirolink.org>, John Straughn
><JTarn@envirolink.org> writes
>>>Just to be the naughty person that I am - why not have she, her, woman or
>>>women as a generic and all-inclusive term?
>>If it had always been generally accepted, I would say, yes, go ahead and
>>use those terms.  But Ann, don't get me wrong, I know where you are coming
>>from.  But the facts are that when those terms were implemented, women WERE
>>NOT equals.  They were, but they were not seen as so.  But even so, those
>>terms were used in the past and this is the present.  And here, in the
>>present, we now accept these terms as generic and all-inclusive in the
>>racial, religious, and sexual sense.
>
>No "WE" don't. Count me out - and a great many other people.  Certainly
>45 members of Theosophy International, one of whom provides this list
>for us all to use.
>
>Alan

Ok, Alan, I'll make sure to check you off on my list...:)
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