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Old Mon Jul 02, 2001, 11:55am
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Quote:
Originally posted by rainmaker
Gender-neutral vocabulary for general use:

Folks
People (the youth pastor of our church uses this a lot)
Ladies and Gentlemen (for formal use)
Fellow Refs
Anyone else... (near the beginning of a question)
Friends (used by Quakers, especially)
Unenlightened Cretins

Mick--

I'm not quite sure why you're "skeered". I'm not attacking anyone, nor am I trying to be a victim. Mark expressed a desire to be seen as talking gender-neutrally, and I'm trying to help him in that direction. What I'm saying is that if we are all going to get along, we all need to work at it -- if y'all will try, I'll try too.

juulie
How 'bout these?

Gender neutral terms for the coach:
Jerk
Moron
Hotheaded ignoramous
A**hole

Gender neutral terms for the players:
Whiner
Crybaby
Pampered primadonna
Undertalented wannabe

Gender neutral terms for the fans:
Ignorant loudmouth (hmm, could be a coach too)
Raving lunatic
Unenlightened Cretins

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