Marty Henry wrote:
>
> What happened to an author's desire for accuracy? Doesn't he know that
> a mistake like that will red flag his writing to those who really know
> she is a 'she'? What's wrong with this fellow?
>
> Marty
> mhenry@mcrel.org
>
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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>
>
> ____________________________________________
>
> 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>