Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 12:27:30 -0500

From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Re: PC Language



Wayne Glowka wrote:



We can't call the dorms

anything but "residence halls."



Good heavens, what do they do to you if you slip up and call them dorms??



If we slip up and say "dorms," we get corrected.



Here's some anti-PC language. I just encountered some female students in

my structure of English class who were sitting and smoking in the courtyard

outside the student union bulding. Conversation concerned what brands of

cigarettes I smoked before I quit 22 years ago. They wondered if I knew

about the obscene figures on the camel's back on a pack of Camels; they

then talked about penises in the clouds in some Walt Disney cartoon movies.

Feeling a little awkward, I started to leave to come back and grade all of

these term papers, and I noted that one of them was smoking Virginia Slims.

The young woman who also told me that a female member of the class was not

present last week because she was "on the pot" retorted, "Yes, she smokes

Vagina Slimes." I hastened away.



You've come a long way, baby.



Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu