RE: "Don't Offend or Hurt Anyone's Feelings": Is This Even Possible or Valid?
I don't entirely agree with them but also well, that's not quite what it says.
This is a guide which is inherently not a law or a ban, it's a suggestion. It's also geared towards academic writing, such as when writing a research paper.
Lastly, it's talking about certain "generic" terms like "mankind," and suggesting alternatives. (Note to of the alternatives have "man" in them!)
Note that in a couple places it makes similar points about traditionally female-gendered occupations like stewardess and nurse.
So, again I don't think we should be banning words... but claiming that a style guide, with suggestions for a specific type of writing, is banning words seems like a bit of a stretch.
That's what I see in all this though, certain groups will take anything that looks even remotely bad and claim it's far worse in order to villify an opposing group.
The original word 'man'had nothing to do with gender. It was gender neutral from the beginning but social justice feminists turned it into an evil word that only represented males. Human is the original meaning of 'man'. And yeah I already know, I'm a misogynist because I am not conforming to new age fantasy feminist rules.
I'm aware, which is why I started mu comment stating that I don't entirely agree.
Maybe it's time to drop your persecution complex and actually read/consider what I actually said.
No need to get angry and personal based on a neutral comment I made. Maybe you need read my comment before accusing others of the same thing...It might help your 'style guide' (a trickster phrase which is the same thing as banning words. No one is being fooled there).
You think that was neutral? LOL.
In your world of extremism it wasn't neutral. You got angry and flustered because your sly rhetoric and propagandistic term 'style guide' (which means banning words) in a social engineering form, was deconstructed and exposed for what it is. Now you go write you little 'style guide' for society, because obviously you are in charge of what people should and should not think or say #authoritarian. Goodbye forever!
Propagandistic term? It's literally what it is. It's even at the top of the title. You, meanwhile, claimed to be called a misogynist even though no one had addressed you in this comment thread at all.
That's my point. You have a persecution complex. You think that because someone made a suggestion for how to write more neutral academic papers it's somehow an attack on you. And you call your claim that feminists are attacking you "neutral?"
And deconstructed? Where and when did that happen? The only claim made was that it banned words containing "man" except that even their suggested words actually contain "man" so the claim is patently false.