Discussion 4

I really enjoyed reading about Identity Terms because it is always interesting to learn different perspectives. Some of these terms are well known as being rude terms. Some of these terms I never guessed would be considered rude. The first terms that I found interesting was “people with disabilities vs disabled people”. These two terms being compared was not a huge surprised but it was new to me that disabled people is considered rude. It is normal for someone to correct another person when they say someone is disabled. Sometimes a response would be “He/she is not disabled, they are normal”. This response is tell others not to separate “normal people” and “people with disabilities”. Now I understand that calling someone else disabled is seen more harsh than saying a person may have a disability. The second set of terms that really shocked me were “Third world vs Global South”. Ive always thought “third world country” was just a general name for poorer countries. Poorer countries is never anything to make fun of, but the truth is they do have limited resources. Ive never heard of the terms “Global South”. Now I understand that terms like “Third world country” can be seen as saying the world “ghetto” which is not excepted in all societies. False gender neutrality is interested to me because feminist strongly a fighting for woman who are overlooked. When I think about it, what is the reason for referring to a woman as “man” or she as “he” when its just a matter of a few missing letters that can added to the word. One example of false gender neutrality is the word “Policemen”. Even though there are both women and men in police departments, the common term is “PoliceMEN”.