Hi,
Herein lies the problem. “Master” itself may not be a horrible word either. As we discussed on this list some two years ago, the entire basis of removing master/slave involves one anonymously reported incident and an essay by one person in a journal, who himself did an informal survey amongst a small number of friends and colleagues. In that essay, Dr. Eglash did not claim his work to be dispositive, and so we should be careful about making such claims as well. And it leaves us in a place where we truly do not know how to handle the next set of words. And so some questions:
Some phrases are obviously worse than others. And I would point out that none of us involved in this discussion are experts on any of this (that includes the draft authors). One aspect of taking on this work is that we really need to go get those people to participate. Eliot |