Re: CHAT: gender of conlangers (was FW: Lunatic Lovers ofLanguage )

Pablo Flores wrote:
>
> Baba wrote:
> >--- On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:20:40 -0300  Pablo Flores
> ><fflores@...> wrote:
> >>> <Pablo's original statements snipped for brevity>
> >
> >>From my work as a therapist "Brain Sex" is perhaps the most commonly
> >misunderstood aspect of modern neurology.
> >
> ><Baba's statements snipped for brevity>
>
> Let me say something about this and then I'll just shut up about this subject.
>
> First, you are absolutely right about the "Brain Sex" studies -- but I'm not
> wrong, I just used wrong expressions!
>
> Secondly, you and Laurie, who has also posted about this, seem to be convinced
> that I want (consciously or unconsciously) to enclose women in a box and paste
> a lot of sexist labels on it, because I'm a man. And that's sexist too! If you
> want to correct my mistakes (that I have, and a lot of them probably), please
> do so without irony. It's terrible when someone thinks you're a certain kind
> of person and there's no way to show them that's not the case. For the record:
> I hate male chauvinism, I think it's been terrible on women and has
> discredited men, and it even bothers me when I have to make a general
> statement in a language with compulsory gender distinction.
Pablo, I will apologize here and now for any offense you read in my
words. There was none intended, nor was I attempting to be ironic. I was
responding to ideas which, in my opinion, have been mis-characterized
and mis-used to apply the very kind of limiting of women that you refer
to. I was speaking out of my experience, where this labelling has
occasionally been pasted on me. I was not trying to infer that this was
*your* intent, nor that of anyone else on this list, it was just that
your post was the most recent place in which I saw those ideas.

I accept your statements here on your opinions of male chauvinism and
again apologize for any offense which I inadvertently caused.

Laurie
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Laurie Gerholz
milo@winternet.com
http://www.winternet.com/~milo