"Hyerdahl3"  wrote in message
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> >Subject: Ms. NBC's soft sexism caught on web
> >From: "Society" Society{at}feminism.is.invalid
> >Date: 1/15/2005 6:22 AM Pacific Standard Time
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> >Microsoft's MSN has a feature named
> >"The Week in Pictures".  The copy next
> >to this photo in the collection for the week
> >of Jan. 6 - Jan. 13 (2005) caught my eye:
> >
> >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6822990/displaymode/1107//s/2/framenumber/2
> >
> >The copy illustrates one of the many reasons>I've dubbed
Microsoft "Ms."
In
> this photo's>copy, a news organization has once again>taken a situation in
> which men are rescuers and sexually neutered those good men.  I quote from
> >the text copy accompanying the image:
> >
> >   "The mother, baby and a rescue worker..."
> >
> >I notice that in this situation of woman=victim,>the female is brought to
our
> attention -- the copy->writer could have been scrupulous about being>as
> sex-neutral there as the copywriter was for
> >the men by writing:
> >
> >   The parent, baby and a rescue worker...
> >
> >Equally even-handed would have been to write:
> >
> >   The mother, baby and a rescue workman...
>
> So, if the rescue worker had been a woman rather than a man,

Very unlikely. Rescue worker=MAN




 you would have
> wanted the blurb to read ...The mother, baby and a rescue workwoman?   Is
it
> more important that the rescue worker did the rescuing or that he had a
penis?
>
> >>(assuming the sex of the baby was unknown).
> >
> Also distressing to in the light of this Ms. NBC>example of the mainstream
> media's institutional>habit of minimizing the good men do by
sex->neutering the
> identification of those men, are the
> >occasions in which Ms. NBC (like NBC with>which Ms. NBC is affiliated)
makes a
> point of>drawing attention to the sex of the people among>us who do bad
that
> happen to be men.  For>example, press accounts often refer to a
gunman>instead
> of a shooter (usually while the men who
> >put a stop to the shooter's havoc are sex-neutered>as
"police officers"
> instead of being described>as "policemen".)
> >
> The problem with you logic is that some women ARE also police officers.

And none of them can shoot straight. You ability to shoot straight is
determined by your sex. Females just sort of spray  haha



  So, if
> a group of police officers do "X" you really can't say
"policemen".  AND I
ask
> you once again, is it more important that the police do their jobs or that
they
> have peni?
>
> >I've already sent my note of polite protest to>Ms. NBC using
the "Write
us"
> link provided>at the lower right side of the photo's web page.>I look
forward
> to Ms. NBC's response.
>
> Good for you.  But, in the end, I suspect that the word "gunman" sells
more
> copies that the word shooter.  And, I assure you that whenever the cops
are
> still seeking information or witnesses, the fact that the shooter has a
penis
> IS important.  :-)
>
> >
> >--
> >   If you are alive to read this,
> >   thank a man.
>
> A man didn't gestate and deliver me, dear; a woman did.

Are you sure?
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