Mary, Point accepted. Sorry. I do take it that we are in mutually accepted
agreement at this point. Right?
ps
> Hi Phil--
>
> Something you said in your last nature/culture post really bothers me.
>
> I do want to tell you that some ways of putting our language together are
> inherently very sexist and I hate them. So I thought I would tell
> you--being that I am quite convinced that if we can only tell each other
> what we want, we just might be able to figure out how to get through
> this male/female war.
> OK, now to it. You said:
>
> "......you seem to have consented to my basic thrust."
>
> I don't think I did any such thing. In the first place, I think we had
> much agreement all along. This statement strikes me as being a very
> male-sexually-dominating form of communication and I do not like it. It
> feels as if you believe that you made me agree to something I wasn't at
> first inclined to, and so made this conquest of me. Moreover the word
> "thrust" has some pretty sexually violent overtones.
>
> I would request that you consider rephrasing this remark in less
> sexist/dominator tones.
>
> Mary.
> _________________________________________________________________________
> Mary Simmons
> U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Division
> Albuquerque, New Mexico
> (505)262-5332
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Philip T. Shepard, Professor
Lyman Briggs School
Michigan State University
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