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