sexist language

[Sean McLinden]

In article <410 at babbage.acc.virginia.edu> mac3n at babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin) writes:
:: The french language is more subtil than english : ...
:: Maybe is it because we do not know sexual discrimination ;
:
:From the folks that brought us that admirable word "Chauvinisme".

Ah, yes. But "Chauvinisme" did not refer to "sexism", but to Chauvin
who was a moroniccally loyal devotee of Napolean. (To be chauvinistic was
to cling, foolishly, to some one or some cause).

Sean McLinden
Decision Systems Laboratory