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The word Man is inherently confusing/sexist? Oh the huMANity!

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08-26-2006 9:41 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Silent H
08-26-2006 5:31 AM

This discussion reminds me of the time when somebody on campus started a fuss about the POLISCI class "Statesmen", and wanted the name changed to something less sexist. I remember making the counter-proposal, that if we were really bothered by names we should merge the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Gynecology into a single department, which could be named the Department of Homology.
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After a while, people decided that Margaret Thatcher was a pretty good statesman, with the implication that "statesman" is not sexist after all.
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08-29-2006 10:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 48 by Hyroglyphx
08-29-2006 8:43 PM

Re: What's at stake?
Anyone that agrees with Affirmative Action must inherently believe that black people are lazy or are incapable of finding employers that aren't racist, not me!
You sure manage to sound like a racist. However, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and put it down to ignorance.
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I don't treat people according to their race, which is exactly what Affirmative Action does!
No, that is not what affirmative action does.
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08-29-2006 10:48 PM 		Reply to: Message 50 by Hyroglyphx
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Re: What's at stake?
You have bought into the right wing mischaracterization of AA.
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08-31-2006 11:09 AM 		Reply to: Message 70 by Hyroglyphx
08-30-2006 6:11 PM

Re: Undue criticism
I also mentioned that it was a matter of statistical fact that men are typically more adept at mathemtaics than women and that women are more linguistic than men.
I'll note that your "statistical fact" appears to fact about that part of the population that takes the SAT test, rather than a fact about the population as a whole.
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