[Leica] Politically correct - final post

[lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com)]

 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