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Moving briskly on to the nouns, the "Manglish" reformers have been attacking all the words derived from man, master, father and the like, usually proposing neuter or feminine alternatives. Thus titles such as "chairperson" and "Congressone," words like "sportsoneship," "herstory" and "spokesone" could someday-if the feminists have their way-become part of the language. Some of the suggestions seem absurd-having the milk delivered by the milkone, for example, or changing hurricane to hissicane (because women do not like to be associated with destructive storms...
...revolution, your womanifest destiny, as sure as womenopause, is to be a revolutionary womanque, you and all your sheroes, Kate Millett, Gloria Steinem, old Uncle Tom Montagu, et al. But I turn purple as a girlsenberry when I see the wo-manner in which you try to womanipulate the Manglish Language for your inhu-woman purposes...
...proliferation of Women's Lib-oriented journals has served to standardize the movement's special jargon. In California, Varda Murrell is writing a Dictionary of Sexism attacking English as "Manglish." With perfect seriousness she advocates, for example, substituting "girlcott" for "boycott." Others are also playing the game. Unliberated honorifics like "Mrs." and "Miss" are replaced by the noncommittal "Ms." Idiotically, there is a move to replace "history" with "herstory." A favorite pejorative is "sexism"?the expression of conscious or unconscious male-chauvinist attitudes. Sexism was the sin of one professor who admitted at a San Francisco meeting...
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