Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, Close your eyes, hit the "Delete" button and live in mental peace! (-: You can only control yourself and what you do, not others. Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:28 AM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote: > Your comments in this post regarding sexist language are well taken, yet > it does seem odd that in another post you advised Chris Crawford to "Stand > your ground. You don't have anything to apologize for" (your words, copied > and pasted from your post) when Chris had made several remarks that were > interpreted by many as sexist and insulting.? Perhaps your sensitivity to > sexist language isn't the standard you're holding the rest of us to. > > > Doug Herr > > > > MEA CULPA. I was so taken by Chris Crawford's comments on Tina's Leica > obsession that I completely overlooked the sexist nature of his comments. > See how easy it is to ignore what you don't want to see. While it may be > understandable that Lluis uses the term senorita, Nathan's mastery of world > cultures should have sensitized him to the mimizing aspects of the term in > other languages. But those two are not the only Luggers that call an > attractive young woman in a photo a senorita. It has been adopted and used > by many without the justification of a Spanish heritage. Lack of protest > (until now) does not mean acceptance. Obviously other Luggers were bothered > by it as well. I suggest that in the future we refer the subjects in our > photos, male or female, in a less demeaning fashion. > > > I apologize again for my own personal insensitivity and will censor my own > comments better. By the way, I have never used the N-word it any personal > or written comment and in future LUG communcations will never use the > S-word. Its hard to think of pejorative terms for all the other letters in > the alphabet but I'll try not to use them either. > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >