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Re: Political Correctness

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Political Correctness
From: Dashman <Dashman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:57:24 +0100
Priority: low
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>   
>       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"
>   

Or perhaps, "WOMusiciANs Entrance" ?  :-)

Anyway, I thought all this PC stuff had gone turtle.  Example: the correct 
address (in England) for a female who acts is an "actor".  The word "actress" 
no longer exists.
--
Darren Ashman,
Secretary and Principal Cornet,
City of Cambridge Brass Band, (UK)
dashman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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