Re: [Callers] Another vote for "jets" and "rubies"

On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 09:04 -0500, Angela DeCarlis via Callers wrote: And many people are fine with things the way they are! I get that, and that's great for you, but why on earth wouldn't you change things if it meant being more inclusive, more just? I understand that from your perspective we would be more inclusive if we used gender-free terminology. It is my belief, however, that the majority of the population would see the use of gender-free terminology for roles as something that 'excluded' them - additional terms used by a private club of people with their own rituals, kind of like masonry. They can understand why we might need funny terms for the moves. They cannot understand why we need funny terms for people when (as far as they are concerned) we already have perfectly good terms - men/gents/blokes and women/ladies/sheilas etc. From their perspective it is definitely not 'inclusive'. Michael Barraclough www.michaelbarraclough.com