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Spokesperson[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by Anonymous User on Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:21:30 AM PDT

Ed, I wish you'd quit using the extremely cumbersome feminist phrase "spokesperson". You use it three times in this story. It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. And you're not even consistent, since you used "spokesman" in the beginning. You could just use the generic "spokesman", or you could use both "spokesman" and "spokeswoman" if you must. But "spokesperson" is so clumsy and so politically correct it makes me want to vomit.

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Spokesperson is sexist too![ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#4)
by Anonymous User on Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:26:41 AM PDT

To be truly gender neutral one would have to say "spokesperson or spokesperdaughter," since "son" is obviously male...

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Sexist verbiage.[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#5)
by Anonymous User on Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:33:52 AM PDT

Its "Spokesperoffspring..."

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Knock it off[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#6)
by Anonymous User on Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 11:38:20 AM PDT

Hey, cut it out! Obviously you're trying to re-write herstory.

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Spokesperson is sexist too![ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#38)
by Anonymous User on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 07:38:19 PM PDT

"Spokesman" is gender non-specific. "Man" refers to mankind. This is all troublemaker crap.

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(eyes rolling here)...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#12)
by Anonymous User on Tue Sep 12, 2006 at 12:32:39 PM PDT

If that makes you want to vomit, I think your priorities in this world are waaaay out of whack.

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PC Verbiage[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#22)
by Anonymous User on Wed Sep 13, 2006 at 05:44:20 AM PDT

While use of laborious PC language doesn't make me "want to vomit" it is indeed ludicrous and, as such, irritating.

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Re: Spokesperson[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#43)
by Anonymous User on Thu Sep 14, 2006 at 10:04:29 AM PDT

I prefer "mouthpiece."

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Hrm[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#90)
by Anonymous User on Sun Sep 17, 2006 at 06:40:03 AM PDT

Actually, the technical term is "marketroid", although "drone" is commonly used in casual speech.

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Drone[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#100)
by Anonymous User on Mon Sep 18, 2006 at 07:50:20 PM PDT

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

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