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OTOH, in our congregation, the Annual Report belongs to the Vice-Chair. Our last Vice-Chair quit over the damned thing.
 
I can think of various scenarios which would explain some of the stuff with the brochure.

Though job responsibilities can help, I have rarely seen them be called out unless there are other issues going on.

It seems that crazyheart is indicating gender bias and a disrespectful environment. That sucks.
 
Sometimes people jump in and do things that the paradigm will hang them for ... humankind is like that when dealing with the SS (support system that is not national socialism but a filmy dark metaphor on interim nature?

Id'll pass ...
 
Just realized that there's one very gendered word I use all of the time: "guys". To my children, to my dogs, to my friends, "come on, guys, let's get going", "hey guys, over here!", etc...
 
Such is the guise of where we can hide things ... in the natural man ... as hypo nature sinks ... from the depths arises that lady with the Eire head ... but much room for hiding naught but thoughts ... of the man in her depths? That be that tall dark alien ... by J'aman ante stretch of Jinn*an*heh ... not cricket in the English stir ... another clique in the greater ...
 
PilgrimsProgress said:
Er, not all of us are in Canada..........

Aussies(Australians) shorten everything - it's in our DNA.;)
Postie, milko, newso (newsagent), Maccas (Mcdonalds)........ don't ever call me Christine - it's Chris!
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WC2 is a website hosted in Canada. ;)
 
crazyheart said:
That certainly wasn't very welcoming, @Jae. @PilgrimsProgress is not only a member

of this forum but she is a valuable friend from another country bringing another perspective.

Her post,IMO, was very interesting and helpful in the on-going gender and language discussion.
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Was clarifying what I meant by "We're in Canada" crazyheart. We, the collective we, are in Canada. That's all.
 
I had an small business owner refer to the women he had met at Five oaks as gals. "What time will you gals be back tomorrow" "you gals can use the fridge now" .

He meant well. I did not take offence. It was funny and odd, though
 
KayTheCurler said:
Indeed. We includes everybody.
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When Jae respectfully requests to be allowed back into the room - how ironic is this - Room For All - Pinga responds with
"I would prefer that we see a period of good behaviour across the board prior to being welcomed back."Pinga, Feb 1, 2018
I was not included in that we as I thought banning him from a 'room for all' thread was ridiculous in the first place.

Of course Pinga did not have to explain herself when I asked ...We?
Perhaps the following Post is a part of that we?

crazyheart said:
That certainly wasn't very welcoming, @Jae. @PilgrimsProgress is not only a member of this forum but she is a valuable friend from another country bringing another perspective. Her post,IMO, was very interesting and helpful in the on-going gender and language discussion.
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It seems to me that posts of that kind are rather deliberately critical of Jae when there is no need for it.

Are you suggesting that PilgrimsProgress should take offense where none was intended ... do you want her to be offended?

Are you looking to make Jae unwelcome and afraid to offend?

Perhaps you are one of the probation officers in the we camp that wants to see a period of good behavior from Jae across the board - where there is room for (we) all.
 
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Pinga said:
I had an small business owner refer to the women he had met at Five oaks as gals. "What time will you gals be back tomorrow" "you gals can use the fridge now" .

He meant well. I did not take offence. It was funny and odd, though
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He meant well. There is the logical rational assumption. But, because of the language policing that is going on ... someone could bring it up as offensive - hypothetically harmful - and bang - it is a shot fired! I use 'guys' - like Bette - more often - somehow it seems more acceptable as gender neutral. Why I wonder?
 
BetteTheRed said:
Some of it is syllables. I probably refer to letter carriers a dozen times a day, either to the dog, or about the dog. Mailman and postie have two syllables, letter carrier has five. OTOH, I rarely have an opportunity to refer to fire fighters in my normal course of conversation, and even if I did, fireman has two syllables, fire fighter only three.
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OTOH - how should I pronoun - ce that?
 
monk said:
He meant well. There is the logical rational assumption. But, because of the language policing that is going on ... someone could bring it up as offensive - hypothetically harmful - and bang - it is a shot fired! I use 'guys' - like Bette - more often - somehow it seems more acceptable as gender neutral. Why I wonder?
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Thank you Monk.

As I've shared all, I was speaking of the collective "we." We, that is to say WC2, are in Canada.

There may well be individuals here who are located outside Canada. I welcome and encourage their participation.
 
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