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Subject: Re: what constituted discrimination? -Reply
Author: <edequity@tristram.edc.org> at Internet-Mail
Date: 3/18/98 5:01 PM
Oh, hey--you really have to smile at least once a day, or you go nuts
doing this, especially if your kid is in the hot seat. I'm chuckling
today because I tried to get a textbook author to change the male
pronoun he used for Guanyin (or Kwan Yin), the Chinese goddess of
mercy. But he doesn't like having women correct his work, so it's going
to press as Guanyin . . he. Now there's something to make one laugh and
cry! And it happens all the time--let's say maybe a hundred such
problems with correction by women per textbook authored by a male with
authority syndrome.
Linda Purrington <lpurring@earthlink.net>
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C123S105L wrote:
>
> Linda: Iam glad I made you smile a little. So many days go by in where ones
> thinking becomes so focus in examining and ''living'' this issue that one does
> not
> find ''much to smile about''. Yes Iam familiar with the book. Read it sometime
> ago
> and found it a bit tedious because if I remember correctly ''there were too
> many
> samples'' long after the point had been made...or perhaps as you implied not
> totally
> ''completed''. Also the point you made regarding the school in San Francisco
> reflected what a mother wrote recently in edequity refering to how important
> was for boys to be exposed to pedagogy because this kind of teaching added
> such
> non-traditional aspect in curriculum and teaching that it became ''very
> interesting''
> to her son...It is obvious that students are simply BORED TO DEATH learning
> about the same achievements of the same MEN year after Year in a thousand
> diferent ways. Is almost as if men do not sease to glorify themselves over and
> over..
> like the ''literary version'' of the ''phallic cults'' of not too ancient
> civilizations...
> real
> <C123S105L@aol.com>
C123S105L wrote:
>
> Linda: Iam glad I made you smile a little. So many days go by in where ones
> thinking becomes so focus in examining and ''living'' this issue that one does
> not
> find ''much to smile about''. Yes Iam familiar with the book. Read it sometime
> ago
> and found it a bit tedious because if I remember correctly ''there were too
> many
> samples'' long after the point had been made...or perhaps as you implied not
> totally
> ''completed''. Also the point you made regarding the school in San Francisco
> reflected what a mother wrote recently in edequity refering to how important
> was for boys to be exposed to pedagogy because this kind of teaching added
> such
> non-traditional aspect in curriculum and teaching that it became ''very
> interesting''
> to her son...It is obvious that students are simply BORED TO DEATH learning
> about the same achievements of the same MEN year after Year in a thousand
> diferent ways. Is almost as if men do not sease to glorify themselves over and
> over..
> like the ''literary version'' of the ''phallic cults'' of not too ancient
> civilizations...
> real
> <C123S105L@aol.com>