Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Diversity in Cohousing

[Kathleen Lowry (kathleenlowrylpcclmft]

And for good reason, Philip, right? The word is very offensive fr the outside, 
like a lot of other words. 

> On Feb 21, 2023, at 2:37 PM, Philip Dowds <rpdowds [at] comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I’ve been in dialogs _about_ the N* word, and things go along medium-OK … 
> until someone makes the mistake of fully spelling out, or pronouncing the 
> syllables of, the N* word.  At which point, all h*ll breaks loose.
> 
> Sharon says, Context is everything.  What I find is that many people of 
> specific ethnicity (biological anthropologists tell us there’s no such thing 
> as “race”) can and do use the N* word in full — frequently, in speech, song, 
> and published text — because it shows _they_ own the word.  That the word has 
> no power over them.  Fine by me.  But woe unto the person of whitish 
> ethnicity who tries to use the word in full.
> 
> Culture is everything.
> 
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> Thanks, RPD
> 617.460.4549
> 
>> On February 21, 2023 at 2:27:20 PM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L 
>> (cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org) wrote:
>> 
>> On Feb 21, 2023, at 12:18 PM, Kathleen Lowry <kathleenlowrylpcclmft [at] 
>> gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> But certain terms used in a derogatory way like “c” words for women or “n” 
>> should be banned, right?
> 
> I wouldn’t use these words and wouldn’t inhabit situations in which they were 
> used, I but offer this:
> 
> When my son was about 2 and a half, he was attending a free school in which 
> salty language was encouraged. We were going for a daylong Unitarian Church 
> picnic at a friend’s home on the edge of a large permanent forest preserve 
> that my friend had donated to the county. He and his family were _big_ 
> preservationists.
> 
> To prepare for this visit I had to have a talk with my son about language and 
> words that could not be used while we were there. The most important word not 
> to be spoken was “snow mobile.”
> 
> Context is everything.
> 
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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