Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]+1! Tina On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > This, unfortunately, is the Zeitgeist, yes. Rather than doing something > about society's real problems, the upper classes engage in feel-good PC > exercises, such as this, or making a football team change its name, etc. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > On 20 Jul 2014, at 15:07, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > > > In your opinion you mean Larry? Do you speak for the people in Spain or > > Catalonia or Spanish speaking countries and presume to know what it means > > to them or are you viewing through the prism of what you think that some > of > > the US population considers it means or how you use it? > > I just don't get this whole intolerance and sensitivity thing personally. > > I always thought of Gilbert and Sullivan as light opera with English > style > > from the time. I have enjoyed it while being by no means an expert. > Shall > > we also condemn everything that doesn't fit the current era and political > > correctness perhaps? > > > > > > Cheers > > Geoff > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > > > On 20 July 2014 22:16, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > >> Richard writes: > >> the play(Mikado) is not > >> being held in high esteem in the Chinese/Japanese communities. > >> - - - > >> Well at least few on the LUG now refer to women as "senoritas." That is > >> BOTH racist and sexist. > >> Larry Z > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > Blog: > http://www.nathansmusings.eu/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/