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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1002970" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>As a general rule, I detest PC crap. "Policeman" has 3 syllables, "policewoman" has 4. As far as I am concerned, "policeman" can and ought to be a generic, gender-neutral term for any police officer. If I call 911, I could care less whether the responder has boobs or not. There was a similar dust-up at one time over the term "waiter" and "waitress"...some of the PC nazis felt that specifying the gender was somehow biased and they proposed the term "waitron" in order to be gender-neutral. "Waitron" sounds awful, I'm gonna stick with "waiter" and "waitress" thank you very much. Same deal with race, I am a big fan of keeping things simple and easy to pronounce. When race <em>must</em> be specified for whatever reason, I dont see what the problem is with saying "white guy" or "black guy" or "hispanic" or "asian". There are no value judgements either stated or implied, and everything doesnt have to be some sort of politically correct anthropology lesson.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1002970, member: 14668"] As a general rule, I detest PC crap. "Policeman" has 3 syllables, "policewoman" has 4. As far as I am concerned, "policeman" can and ought to be a generic, gender-neutral term for any police officer. If I call 911, I could care less whether the responder has boobs or not. There was a similar dust-up at one time over the term "waiter" and "waitress"...some of the PC nazis felt that specifying the gender was somehow biased and they proposed the term "waitron" in order to be gender-neutral. "Waitron" sounds awful, I'm gonna stick with "waiter" and "waitress" thank you very much. Same deal with race, I am a big fan of keeping things simple and easy to pronounce. When race [I]must[/I] be specified for whatever reason, I dont see what the problem is with saying "white guy" or "black guy" or "hispanic" or "asian". There are no value judgements either stated or implied, and everything doesnt have to be some sort of politically correct anthropology lesson. [/QUOTE]
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