Re: "Jerks", was Re: Peter Dorman and Robin Hahnel

[Jim Devine]

At 10:04 PM 06/21/2000 -0500, you wrote:


>Doyle Saylor wrote:
>
> > Doyle
> > What is a Jerk?  Is that a term
>
>Actually, Doyle, the current popularity of the term "jerk" (which used to
>be a rather mild epithet but has become a rather sharp one) is because of
>the partially successful effort to eliminate sexist, racist, heterosexist, 
>etc.
>language. "Jerk" is one of the few nasty names left to use. So I would not
>advise objecting to it. We do need to call each other names at times, and
>we can't eliminate all the candidates for that sort of usage.

I agree with the above.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine