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:: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 ::

Hey, fella. Watch who you're calling 'girls'!
poor Andrew Jones. He's been taking much heat lately for his use of the word girls to describe young teenage females. It all began with a seemingly innocuous comment at the end of this post, but the discussion about the power of language has since spread like kudzu throughout the blogosphere. Andrew has since offered a gracious response to the conversation, and the sound and fury seems to have subsided, so there's no need for me to jump in and continue to flog this thing.

But I do have a thought to contribute, and that thought is this:

Ladies and gentlemen, we exist in a sexist, racist, ageist culture. We are all, regardless of our ethnicity or gender, afflicted by the ills of sexism, racism and ageism (and perhaps a few other "isms") simply because we are born into it, immersed into this culture. It isn't just embodied in rap music, the corporate glass ceiling, athletics, or other more or less "traditional" institutions. It is woven into the fabric of our society. Until we wake up to this fact, we'll continue to make the same mistakes, over and over again. We have a long way to go before we reach that ideal community of believers Paul describes as neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female. But we should continue to strive toward that ideal.

:: Andrew 08:44 + ::
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