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patrice

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3. I think this is a useful dialectic that becomes progressively NON-useful in direct proportion to
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 09:24 PM
Apr 2013

the amount of loaded language used in the red and in the green verbiage.

Query a thesaurus and re-write to substitute precisely descriptive words that are objectively neutral toward BOTH types of women. The final draft should be explicitly descriptive and readers should be completely incapable of identifying the writers attitude toward either woman individually and toward both women collectively as manifestations of our women's movement.

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