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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> writes:
> Note that "Brotherhood" as an organization name goes way way way back. (not
> sure HOW far back exactly but here's a place to start digging:
> http://www.ble.org/)
>
> Railroad unions were some of the very first unions to form. It has a lot of
> historical significance. Since "the brotherhood of man" includes not one,
> but TWO male specific words, yet everyone knows it refers to the entire race
> of humans, I see no reason not to go with such a neato historical term in
> the name of PC-ness.
That thought train sounds like rationalization to me. But it's not my
brotherhood so forget my two cents.
--Todd
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| (...) What do *you* think? (or was that a facetious question? :-) ) I would prefer not to belong to any club that excludes girls. (I *like* girls, just ask me, they're fun to have around) I can think of at least one girl member of most of the train (...) (23 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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