Sex v Gender Merry Xmas! v Happy Holidays!

Unsexing the Language

by Jared Taylor 

Taki's Magazine, December 19, 2012

"Every day, the left is beavering away at the language. "

http://takimag.com/article/unsexing_the_language_jared_taylor/print#ixzz2FqUzcWkD

     So true, as well as everything else worthwhile in Western civilization.

     Another outstanding one by Jared Taylor. Although I will say that there are Rush Limbaugh types in my neck of the woods who are now willing to start fistfights at every utterance of "Happy Holidays!" when I think many people use that phrase when they are not going to see someone again through Christmas and New Years, and also possibly Thanksgiving, and are simply wishing people a fine holiday season, rather than their being actual Communists or on a first-name basis with the Beast. 

     Several years ago a scientist friend of mine, who published books through Oxford, told me that his manuscripts would always come back from the editors changed so that everything he had written had been translated into 'gender neutral.' Since his major concerns were elsewhere, I think he only saw this as a bizarre minor annoyance. But what really amused him was that, while the editors were careful to go over his manuscripts with a fine-tooth comb to make all the many minute changes, if there was an example of  a generic "he" or "his" that was used negatively, it would be left unchanged. For example, if you were to write something like, "When it comes to your average fat stupid ugly pyromaniac, he ...," it would have happily sailed right on past the editors untouched. So obviously 'gender neutral' ain't so neutral.