[mythtv-users] references to "significant other"

Dan Morphis dan at milkcarton.com
Tue Apr 27 17:28:34 EDT 2004


J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>  And see there's the problem. Because someone might possibly be
>  offended by something everyone else needs to tiptoe around. People
>  really need to grow thicker skins or something the PC nutjobs have
>  twisted things to such an extreme that legitimate harassment and
>  horrid behavior are trivialized.
>
>  Reminds of me of the county that banned the computer terms
>  master/slave (such as used by myth) because they were insensitive to
>  "people of color". _______________________________________________

JD, they didn't quite ban the terms, they more or less forcefully 
encouraged companies to quite using the term. . .


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