[Leica] Politically correct - final post

[jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

Thanks Larry. I guess all of us could benefit from a time-out before hitting 
the "send" key at one time or another. 

Regards,

Jeffery

On Jul 3, 2013, at 9:58 PM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote:

> Your comments in this post regarding sexist language are well taken, yet 
> it does seem odd that in another post you advised Chris Crawford to "Stand 
> your ground. You don't have anything to apologize for" (your words, copied 
> and pasted from your post) when Chris had made several remarks that were 
> interpreted by many as sexist and insulting.? Perhaps your sensitivity to 
> sexist language isn't the standard you're holding the rest of us to.
> 
> 
> Doug Herr
> 
> 
> 
> MEA CULPA. I was so taken by Chris Crawford's comments on Tina's Leica 
> obsession that I completely overlooked the sexist nature of his comments. 
> See how easy it is to ignore what you don't want to see. While it may be 
> understandable that Lluis uses the term senorita, Nathan's mastery of 
> world cultures should have sensitized him to the mimizing aspects of the 
> term in other languages. But those two are not the only Luggers that call 
> an attractive young woman in a photo a senorita. It has been adopted and 
> used by many without the justification of a Spanish heritage. Lack of 
> protest (until now) does not mean acceptance. Obviously other Luggers were 
> bothered by it as well. I suggest that in the future we refer the subjects 
> in our photos, male or female, in a less demeaning fashion.
> 
> 
> I apologize again for my own personal insensitivity and will censor my own 
> comments better. By the way, I have never used the N-word it any personal 
> or written comment and in future LUG communcations will never use the 
> S-word. Its hard to think of pejorative terms for all the other letters in 
> the alphabet but I'll try not to use them either.
> Larry Z
> 
> 
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