[Vision2020] Banning Blind Barbarian Babes: Language Police Bar 'Old,' 'Blind' in Textbooks

Robert Dickow dickow@uidaho.edu
Fri, 30 May 2003 14:07:19 -0700


Dang, Since I match all these (except the busboy) specifications I don't
stand a chance to EVER be mentioned in kid's textbooks.... no matter how
famous, influential, and important I happen to be.

Bob Dickow

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Courtney" <dale@courtneys.us>

>The texts also can't say
> someone has a boyish figure, or is a busboy, or is blind, or suffers a
> birth defect, or is a biddy, or the best man for the job, a babe, a
> bookworm, or even a barbarian.
>