Bad Words: Modeling Rehumanizing Action Against Dehumanizing Talk
Is language an area that deserves attention in the quest for the protection of human rights? This question was addressed by pro-life feminists at the Life-Peace/Justice Conference in Pittsburgh this October. The panel was made up entirely of women, and regardless of whether women (as one thoughtful observer wondered before this closing keynote discussion) are more receptive to the subtleties of words, it is certainly true that they, amongst other groups of human beings, have