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JDPriestly

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16. Actually, if a man wrote that article and used the words with regard to women that are

Tue Jun 9, 2015, 07:05 PM

Jun 2015

the linguistic equal to some of the words used in general about men, that man might be banned from DU.

I don't quite understand what the standard is here about the use of the "naughty" words to refer to people of one or the other gender. Could anyone be clear about that so that we can avoid being offensive in this respect? Which words are allowed and which are not? Are the words allowed as long as we let everyone know we are just talking about any Tom, "****" and Harry and not a specific person? What is the rule on this.

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