As always, with each new edition of the APA Publication Manual (web supplements at: http://www.apastyle.org/manual/supplement/index.aspx), I am learning new terminology in the ongoing battle to reduce bias in writing. Do we have anyone on TIPS who would be willing to share their experience as a cisgendered person? I will be the first to come out.
While I applaud the attempt to stop using the term homophobia (which I think unnecessarily links a particular attitude or belief with a neo-analytic explanation for it), it appears that on both Google and Google Scholar, homophobia is still in much more common usage than the preferred terms: homonegativity or binegativity. It seems we may have a long way to go on that front. One complaint I have: How am I ever going to get used to going back to typing two spaces at the end of a sentence? I don't do that in e-mail or any other format (I don't imagine too many people will be including two spaces at the end of a sentence in a tweet given the character limit) since one of the recent revisions of APA style went from two spaces to one at the end of a sentence. I guess I will have to set my Word grammar checker to remind me of that mistake. I have started to make the change in this e-mail. Don't those spaces between sentences look ridiculously large? Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3055 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu (479)524-7295 http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
