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Can't we come up with better, more neutral terminology than wife?
These terms are used in the more recent literature in an attempt to reach a more neutral terminology.
"Using more neutral terminology to describe a person with [intellectual disabilities], when they need to be described at all, is just one more way to respect them," wrote Ellen Seidman who blogs about raising a child with special needs.
"Using more neutral terminology to describe a person with [intellectual disabilities], when they need to be described at all, is just one more way to respect them," wrote blogger Ellen Seidman who chronicles life raising a child with special needs.
Recently, Shusterman and Hummel (2009) proposed the more neutral terminology "trigeminal chemoreception" for all feelings associated with the stimulation of cranial nerve V (Shusterman and Hummel 2009).
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"Female Genital Cutting (FGC)" and "excision and infibulation" have been identified as more neutral, ethically sensitive terminology [ 4, 6].
On a semantic note, in efforts to promote studies of beneficial microbe/animal associations as informing parasitic or pathogenic associations, Margaret McFall-Ngai has suggested that terms like "virulence" and other disease related terminology be changed to more neutral terms, which I heartily endorse.
Before the baseline survey, a terminology workshop with Healing Wind language experts identified more neutral terms to decrease potential bias and to develop new ways to discuss sexual health.
This use of terminology give the impression that the identification of user needs is a more neutral, objective process than it actually is.
Because the Western origins of messianic terms and concepts give discussions of messianism an almost unavoidable Judeo-Christian slant, sociologists and anthropologists prefer more neutral terminology nativistic, renewal, or revitalization movements and crisis cults.
If morally neutral terminology is used for morally repugnant acts, it reduces the sense of repugnance.
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