Issue No 30 | 10 September 1999 | |
Letters to the EditorMind Your Language
Dear Peter,
Unlike many of my more sceptical woman friends, I am convinced that you really didn't mean to exclude all your non-male readers with this little gem in your editorial dated September 3: 'Would an entrepreneur who has invested significant money into the web, be prepared to allow a dissenting and independent voice to be broadcast on his site? Or would we be shut out of the ACTU's home base in cyberspace?' 'His site?' Tssk tsssk. On behalf of all the female entrepreneurs out here in Online Land who heaved a weary, collective sigh when they read your editorial, I would like to say desist at once. Because, unlike me, most take a lot of convincing that the old female-male barriers within Australian unionism are breaking down. A good start would be to drop the male default. Let's slip quietly into the 1990s with our language, shall we? Before we find the 90s have passed us by. In unity, Brenda Finlayson
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