Sexist Language

To me, sexist language is pretty much associating something to one particular sex. For example, some people might say that's sexist if you're agreeing to something someone said about a certain gender and only agreeing to them without hearing the other side of it. In chapter ten, they talk about the other side of sexist language, which is NONsexist language. Nonsexist language are words that are not associated with either sex. Referring to a "Female doctor" suggests that women aren't typically physicians. Other examples of sexist words are mankind, waitress, career woman, and so on. You get the picture. From reading the comments on flickr, I believe people are not just discussing sexist language, but taking it as far as putting their nationalities into the argument. I just saw a few comments where they said they should just take out Asian or Indian when tagging photos because people may use the words wrongly and cause people to judge the language that they're saying. Another person wrote something very funny to me that maybe people shouldn't just tag photos or point things out in one word phrases and actually write complete sentences. Everything on every website now a days can be tagged. With facebook, we usually are tagging photos that we are in. Now a days, some people like to be funny and maybe add something a little funny to it. I'm sure they don't mean harm in what they're saying, but who really cares about feelings on the internet? You're not seeing them in person and probably never will. If they were to tag people in real life, like point to them and say "yellow or asian", then yeah, this tagging thing would really become a problem. Until then, people are free to say whatever they want. That's what the freedom of speech was made for wasn't it?