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A note: Constantly referring to women as girls is a part of the problem. There are certainly women that I know and would use that term to refer to them, for various reason. Familiarity, primarily, as in: "Hey, what are the girls doing tonight?" as a question posed to a female friend about our common group of female friends. But you use girl not just for the specific person (Julie Horvath) but for all women ("If a girl feels harassed..."), and not in a case of familiarity. It's removing them from the category of peers (as adult persons) and putting them into a subordinate group (child persons). And it presents the possibility of dismissing the claim because they're not mature and don't really understand the difference between harassment and ribbing.

Language matters.

parent Jtsummers 10 years ago

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