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...added essay, Avoiding Sexist Language, offers some useful gender-neutral suggestions (firefighter instead of fireman). Yet browsers will find as well the stamp of acceptance on the dreadful herstory ("an alternative form to distinguish or emphasize the particular experience of women"); the execrable womyn ("alternative spelling to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequence m-e-n"); and the absurd wait-person (waiter or waitress) and waitron ("a person of either sex who waits on tables"). Future lexicons, perhaps, will give us waitoid (a person of indeterminate sex who waits on tables...
...movies place women at their center that when one does it is held up to the light and turned every which way for clues about the state of the gender. This may be more freight than Thelma & Louise can carry. But not since | Fatal Attraction has a movie provoked such table-pounding discussions between men and women. Along partisan lines, men attack the movie as a male-bashing feminist screed, in which they are portrayed as leering, overbearing, violent swine who deserve what they get, from a bullet in the heart to being stuffed in a trunk. Women cheer...
LANGUAGE A new dictionary is gender neutral but not word perfect...
This month FBI director William Sessions will ask Congress for legislation creating an FBI version of the time-honored ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) program to recruit minority students who need financial aid to finish college. Sessions' aim is to bring ethnic and gender diversity to the bureau, whose 10,094 special agents include just 485 blacks, 557 Hispanics, 135 Asians, 39 Native Americans and 1,078 women...
...part of their training period, teaching fellows will be required to attend gender-issue workshops offered by the newly-renamed Bok Center for Teaching and Learning...