Joy Beeson <jbeeson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I don't propose to tolerate: ...
> insistence that "old" means "bad" and "new" means "good"
How about vice versa?
> The use of "adult" as a euphemism for "dirty".
How about "young adult" for someone who isn't yet an adult at all?
"Young adult" books don't seem to be targeted at people in their 20s.
> The use of "gender" as a euphemism for "sex".
The way I learned it, pronouns have gender, people have sex. But
nobody else seems to use the words that way. Instead, "gender" seems
to msotly be used to mean one's sexual self-image.
> The use of "the Holocaust" to sanitize, simplify, and trivialize the
> horrors of the Third Reich.
What would you call it? I've also seen the term "Shoah," but I think
that will be recognized by fewer people.
If there isn't a short name for something, it's harder to talk about.
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