| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 433.1 | we need a label for people making labels | MOSAIC::MODICA | | Thu Dec 03 1987 16:26 | 3 |
| I dislike all the labels. They many times are used in a derogatory
manner. I wonder if they won't end up creating yet more
stereotyping of people.
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| 433.2 | | CEODEV::FAULKNER | Kerry | Thu Dec 03 1987 16:53 | 2 |
| Labels are a necessity.
How else would we know what is in the container?
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| 433.3 | | CEODEV::FAULKNER | Kerry | Thu Dec 03 1987 16:55 | 4 |
| But Seriously .1.
Do the labels create the stereotypes ??????????
Or do the stereotypes create the labels ??????????
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| 433.4 | Stereotype contents are never complete | PLANET::GIRARD | | Thu Dec 03 1987 19:15 | 8 |
| re: .2 + .3:
a.) Human Beings aren't cans of soup. I would be hard pressed to
list all the ingredients which go into our each unique container!
b.) In this case an economist created a label becuase of a stereotype
created by another economist's label. He just wanted to perpetuate
it. But I doubt he will get the Nobel Prize for it.
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| 433.6 | | CEODEV::FAULKNER | Kerry | Sat Dec 05 1987 18:31 | 2 |
| I hate labels.
Noters (everyone of them) love em.
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| 433.7 | From Yup to Yeep... | PLANET::GIRARD | | Mon Dec 07 1987 06:24 | 14 |
| Re: .5
AP - "Aging Yuppies won't fade away, they'll just turn into Yeepies,"
a University of Florida expert on the elderly says. "As baby boomers
age, a new group will emerge that I'm calling Yeepies - Youthful,
Energetic, Elderly, People Involved in Everything," said Stephan
M. Golant, a gerontologist (sorry, Yuppies was created by an economist,
maybe economists just never die they become gerontologists?). This
group will make up a really large market of consumer-orientated
buyers." Golant also said that with longer life expectancy, Yuppies
will themselves have older parents and will be more sensitive to
the needs of the elderly.
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| 433.8 | | AXEL::FOLEY | Rebel without a Clue | Mon Dec 07 1987 17:05 | 6 |
|
Guess I'll be a Yeepie then cuz I wish I could have my Mom
covered under my health insurance...
mike
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| 433.9 | | PARITY::DDAVIS | All this & brains, too | Tue Dec 08 1987 08:53 | 8 |
| I think I'm a GRUMPIE.....
Grown Up Mature Person Involved in Everything!
- - - - - -
-Dotti.
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| 433.10 | It ought to be Second Nature... | VIDA::BNELSON | California Dreamin'... | Tue Dec 08 1987 12:26 | 57 |
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Labels in general are dangerous. If you take it too far, pretty soon every
one of us would be alone in our own little label. That's not good, I think
we should be striving to get people TOGETHER, not pull them APART!
Of course, at some point you do need some sort of label so people know they
are talking about the same thing. Differentiating "people" from "dogs", for
example. But those are high-level labels, not like "yuppie", "yeepie", or
one of the other of thousands of labels which tend to subdivide the human
race.
A refrain from the song, "Second Nature", by Rush, talks about this:
Second Nature
A memo to a higher office
Open letter to the powers that be
To a God, a king, a head of state
A captain of industry
To the movers and the shakers --
Can't everybody see?
It ought to be second nature --
I mean, the places where we live!
Let's talk about this sensibly --
We're not insensitive
I know progress has no patience --
But something's got to give
I know you're different --
You know I'm the same
We're both too busy
To be taking the blame
I'd like some changes,
But you don't have the time
We can't go on thinking
It's a victimless crime
No one is blameless,
But we're all without shame
We fight the fire --
While we're
Feeding the flames
.
.
.
Rush, from
"Hold Your Fire"
Geddy Lee
Alex Lifeson
Neil Peart ( lyrics )
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| 433.11 | Take-home pay: what's *that*? | LUDWIG::PHILLIPS | Music of the spheres. | Sat Dec 15 1990 10:48 | 17 |
| Most of the people I work with here are "puppies".....
Poor....
Underpaid....
Professionals....
Praying for an....
Increase in....
Earnings!
Cheers!
--Eric--
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