Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re; Politically Incorrect terminology
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:40:49 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Tina Manley wrote:

>The only problem I have with the way se?orita is used on the LUG is that it
>only refers to young, beautiful women - never overweight, ordinary, or
>plain women.  None of the women in Jim Shulman's fantastic photos are ever
>referred to as se?oritas!  Se?orita is a perfectly valid Spanish
>description of a young woman - every young woman.
>
>(Se?ora) Tina

Agreed, and because of the way it's been used on the LUG I've chosen not to 
use the word in this context.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com