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Re: Political Correctness

To: <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Political Correctness
From: "Graham Young" <gyoung@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 17:01:27 -0400
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Graham Young, trumpets and soprano cornet
Weston Silver band, Symphony Hamilton
Celebration Brass, McMaster Chamber Orchestra
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
gyoung@xxxxxxxx 905-575-8440

	Polical correctness is the rump of socialistic excess.
Bandperson isn't even good sounding English.
Only a pathetic toffee nosed git (an English employee once
described this type of person to me and it 
seems to fit this situation) needs this type of semantic lunacy.
Certain collective terms like the Biblical "Son of Man", Bandsman,
Chairman, should be left as they are. There is a difference between a 
collective term and a gender identification. 

A bandperson is some one who has been surgically or mentally altered to
have no gender. The expression "get a life" comes to mind. 

One could safely use the wording "Musicians Entrance" or "Players Entrance"

as you have said as these collective terms are simple enough to be 
understood by the faceless legions of political correctness.


> Does anybody else feel that tinge of annoyance when faced with
'Politically
> Correct' neutralization of the sexes.
> 
> I am a Bandsman ( or Bandsm'n if you wish), my wife is a Bandsman also. 
> Nothing to do with the masculine gender, Bandsman is just a collective
term
> for players in a band, in the same way as you would have a shoal of fish,
a
> herd of cattle, a pack of wolves etc. etc. etc.  
> 
> What in heavens name then is a 'Bandsperson'!!
> 
> If female bandsmen really do take offense at the term BANDSMAN, then
surely
> the banding world can have some common sense and let us all be ' Players
'.
> I'd much rather see a sign at a contest for ' Players Entrance ' than '
> Bandspersons Entrance'.
> 
> Your comments welcome.
> 
> Kevin.
> 
>		Kevin & Pam Smith
>       Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK
>	kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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