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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 31, 2008 21:49:22 GMT -5
^ The problem with "gender neutral" in the English language is that there's not one generic term and so he/she is really the only grammatically correct option, which sounds awkward and annoying. A lot of non-fiction books these days will, in some instances use 'he' and other instances use 'she', which is probably the best alternative. You're thinking of the way other languages use the masculine third-person whenever a group includes one or more males?
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 1, 2008 20:26:45 GMT -5
^ I'm really dumb sometimes ;D but not sure who Germaine Greer is. Now I'm interested. ;D Feminist writer. I think it might have been possible...I always made the Greer Garson connection though.
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 1, 2008 20:29:17 GMT -5
^ Thanks. I didn't make either connection (obviously) and actually don't see all that much feminism in the BSC books. Maybe I'm just not looking for it, though. ;D I figured AMM just liked the name Greer for whatever reason. ;D
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Post by songheim on Feb 2, 2008 1:51:41 GMT -5
I don't think the feminism was due to ANM herself so much as the books were part of the late 80s/early 90s trend of everything for kids having to have positive social messages no matter how contrived;)
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Post by ringdings on Feb 2, 2008 12:39:34 GMT -5
On another note, I think it's strange that with all the feminist talk, almost none of the women kept their maiden names. AND every single woman took their husband's names when they got remarried. The only exceptions I can think of were Carol and then Mrs. McGill (who reverted to Spencer).
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 2, 2008 17:38:42 GMT -5
^ I think that's another reason I never thought the books had an overly feminist message. I agree with songheim, though, about books from the 80s/90s, which is why I love them. ;D I enjoy the postive social message and think it's great - but I won't go into that here because it will then turn into a discussion on my morals, society and its evils or goodnesses, etc. and I know this isn't the place.
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Post by candykane on Feb 5, 2008 13:39:47 GMT -5
I remember in MA + 2 Many Babies Dawn was telling the Pike kids that she would always be Dawn Schafer. That was when she was explaining the egg thing to them and her partner was Aaron Albright and they giggled, "Do we have to call you Mrs. Albright now?"
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Post by wenonah4th on Feb 5, 2008 13:56:11 GMT -5
In Karen's In Love, after her pretend wedding, she comes to the same conclusion...although if she had started writing "Karen Brewer-Torres" on her papers Ms. Colman would surely have put a stop to that.
Come to think of it, aren't a number of female teachers known as Ms. instead of Miss or Mrs.?
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Post by candykane on Feb 5, 2008 14:01:18 GMT -5
Probably, but their teachers seem to change all the time. Wasn't their science teacher named Ms. Gonzales in Dawn Saves the Planet?
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 26, 2010 20:32:34 GMT -5
Mary Anne Misses Logan:
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