Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/03

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Subject: [Leica] Politically correct
From: lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 18:29:33 -0400 (EDT)
 
 On Jul 3, 2013, at 3:59 PM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote:


By the way, I don't intend to insult anyone. I'm just telling it like it is. 
Sorry.


May I suggest that you're "telling it like [you think] it is."


Do you consider it "sexist" for me to refer to a photograph of a young woman
as "photograph of a young woman"?


Regards,
George Lottermoser?


- - -?
Not at all. If it is a photograph of a young woman, that's what it is. It is 
a reasonable, objective description. On the other hand if it was a 
photograph of Margaret Thacher, Hillary Clinton, or Honey Boo Boo, I might 
have my doubts.


Of course I'm writing about what I think it is. The whole topic is personal. 
The sexist terminology is offensive to me, to my wife, to my daughter and to 
my 5 female grandchildren. They are people, not gals, or senoritas, or 
skirts, or babes or some derogatory adjective which probably should not be 
published here.


Larry Z
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