SHORTISM

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 540.

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SEXUAL PREFERENCE

Avoid old-fashioned and insulting terms when referring to people who have sexual relationships with members of the same sex. To avoid giving offence, use the word gay to refer to men who are sexually attracted to other men, and lesbian for women who are sexually attracted to other women. Use same-sex to describe relationships between two men or two women.

One of the problems with the English language is that it does not have different titles for single and married men, but it does for single and married women. When addressing a woman, do not guess her marital status. If you do not know whether she is married or not, use Ms to address her, rather than Mrs or Miss.

This word was created to convey the idea of prejudiced attitude or even discrimination of short people.

For example, ‘Since I am only 5 feet 4 inches I have difficulty persuading security firms that I am up to the job of security guard. There's a lot of shortism about, you know.'

The word ‘shortism' appeared at about the same time as ‘ageism' (prejudice about old people),'ableism' (prejudice about disabled people, ‘alphabetism' (prejudiced attitude to the people whose surnames begin with the last letters of the alphabet).

There is also one more classification of PC language which is given above .