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[sabrina 1]

40. Well, I don't think it's about sides. I think it's about a small group trying to force everyone else

to be as offended as they are, which of course they have a right to be, about every little perceived 'word' use. What you are seeing is a reaction to years of allowing this one small group to determine what is most important to Women and what words, because it isn't just one word, are acceptable and not acceptable.

Most of us women here have refrained from discussing women's issues here, and I know this because over the years I have been told this by all of the women I have come to know here, and just left the topic to them. However now maybe the rest of the women here who have a right also to THEIR opinions, but who are often attacked here for daring to disagree with this small group, are beginning to realize that they too are characterized by what has become DU 'policy' on women's issues.

This group does not represent me and I believe, though they don't appear to agree, that I too have a right to state my opinion as a woman. Women are not all the same in their views, or their Life Experiences. What offends some may not offend others. THAT seems to be a mortal sin to say here.

I will state my opinion regardless of who likes it or who doesn't on women's issues. THAT is what the courageous women who came before us fought for when it was far less easy to do.

Now I will await the usual personal attacks, which bother me not one little bit but it is predictable.