1. @KathaPollitt's column will raise rankles but makes absolutely crucial point about political language: http://m.thenation.com/article/201289-who-has-abortions …
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2. Language is a tool, not an absolutely. Inclusive language exists in balance with need to politically salient language.
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3. Like Pollitt, I find it hard to imagine how there can be a salient, vibrant feminism that erases talk of women-as-specific-group.
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4. Not to say language can't change or new language can't be found. But it has to be a language that avoids blandness of "personhood" talk
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5. The language of personhood, it seems to me, implies a post-patriarchal society that does not yet exist. So at best language is premature.
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@AngieCoiro That's a fair description of the divide.
11:35 AM - 14 Mar 2015
from Regina, Saskatchewan
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