Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)

From: "DJ" <flouric@highstream.net>

Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 14:50:41 +0000

That's a rather interesting point.  A women's studies class of mine spent a
fair bit of time discussing the myth of gender neutral terms.  How most
every role in society carries with it a stereotype that is either masculine
or feminine.  And how a large number of the other languages in western
civilization use terms like the french "le" or "la" before nouns to actively
assign gender to them.

I agree that the sentence does sound less forceful with "one" instead of
"man" but the concept of Where No Man Has Gone Before does have decidedly
male overtones to it.

Just my two bits,
DJ Bostock
http://www.flouric.com

Carol Mulholland <carol@flagship-pbm.co.uk> wrote in message
news:VA.00002c3f.005e62d9@oemcomputer...
> > to boldly go where no one has gone before.
>
> I'm saddened to see "no man" replaced by "no one" here.
>
> "No one" weakens the stress of the sentence, and insults
> all the intelligent lifeforms that we know the storylines will
> place out there.
>
> Mainly, though, the English language is damaged if through
> mistaken political correctness we can't use "man" to mean the
> whole of humanity.
>
> Carol
>
>
>
>
>

References

New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 08 Nov 2002 20:14:37 +0000
Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
Carol Mulholland <carol@flagship-pbm.co.uk>
Sat, 09 Nov 2002 09:32:51 +0000

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New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Fri, 08 Nov 2002 20:14:37 +0000
Re: New: Zodiac fleet (free, open-ended, email, human, space)
Carol Mulholland <carol@flagship-pbm.co.uk>
Sat, 09 Nov 2002 09:32:51 +0000