[10042] in APO-L
Re: Something to be considered
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Amanda Dickerson)
Sun Nov 6 20:35:53 1994
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 20:35:17 -0500
Reply-To: Amanda Dickerson <axd19@po.CWRU.Edu>
From: Amanda Dickerson <axd19@po.CWRU.Edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
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>I have heard the comment many times that the toast song shouldn't change
>because various people have taken various surveys of their active membership
>and nobody minds the words.
>
>Hmm.... What I wonder is how many people have taken surveys of folks who
>have depledged. Or perhaps people who rushed but never pledged. I wonder how
>many of those people didn't initiate or pledge because they were offended by
>the words in our toast song. Thinking back to my statistics and experimental
>methods classes, I believe that would be a more valid sample.
If people choose not to pledge, or to depledge because we uphold the
traditional toast song, then I personally am glad, because I would
not want them as a brother. If they cannot see beyond the PC idea
that men can only refer to males, etc. then in my opinion they
are not open-minded enough to be in APO.
People need to understand that man also refers to the species
which we belong to. If someone asks you "Are you a horse, a
dog, or a man?" All of us would say man, whether male or female.
I know people will say it is sexist that we use man to refer
to the species, but that is the way it is, it is short for
human. The English language has limitations, but we need to
see beyond the words, and look at the meaning.
amanda
