Re: Bodhi updates

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Melinda Shore wrote:

>I like the idea of using "beautiful" for things that are
>beautiful, "gorgeous" for things that are gorgeous, and so
>on.

beautiful, pretty, etc. are perfectly appropriate words to
describe beautiful or pretty people, critters, things.

>The notion that there's something feminizing about the word
>"beautiful" is pretty silly to start with (and I disagree
>that it is feminizing), but to then behave as if there's
>something offensive about being described using a female
>attribute (especially one as clearly laudatory as
>"beautiful") is just plain dumb.

amen!  it certainly says more about the offended than the
offendee.

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