[lojban-beginners] Re: lojban for beginners

[Minimiscience <minimiscience@gmail.com>]

de'i li 09 pi'e 09 pi'e 2009 la'o fy. Alexandre Dezotti .fy. cusku zoi
skamyxatra.
> What is demeaning is having always the same examples.
> It's not diminishing sexism in any way, on the contrary, sexism is a
> fact of the whole society and not just a personal choice. One cannot
> just say "well, you could think yourself about some woman carrying a
> piano", this kind of behaviour just tries to deny the public
> acceptance and the innate sexism nature of the society. The aim is not
> making people fuzzy inside, it is rather avoiding to perpetuate the
> sexism in the minds within our cultural expressions.
.skamyxatra

So your complaint is that the examples fail to go against the status quo of
language textbook examples?  You wish to practice reverse discrimination in
favour of non-stereotypical examples?  Rather than complaining about
pre-existing works, I think it would be a far better idea for you to create
your own version of *Lojban for Beginners* in which the example sentences are
as non-stereotypical, counter-cultural, and generally revolutionary as you want
them to be.  It is better for the Lojban corpus, and almost any corpus, to have
its diversity develop naturally from different expressions of ideas than to
impose artificial restrictions against things which, in a truly diverse
setting, would be accepted without question.

mu'omi'e .kamymecraijun.

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