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Postby 40 Fl. oz. » Tue Mar 18, 2003 7:44 am

its about time!
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Postby Marvin Feltcher » Tue Mar 18, 2003 12:38 pm

Nothing to do with Usa, but a true story I can verify and is sorta similar in tone.
Some years ago, I used to work for a Japanese government body that had close ties to JET, which was then in its infancy. A rather prominent women's rights activist from Down Under was selected to take part in the program.
Her placement was decided by an Australian (not me), who put her in a Mie Prefecture municipality called Shira (now Shirahama).
Pronounced by a Japanese Shira sounds very similar to sheila, the Strine slang word for woman and an anethema to feminists.
The poor feminist had to live for a year in a town with a name that, each time she heard it, must have grated up her spine the way that hearing fingernails being run along a blackboard does for most people.

...perhaps I'd better get to work.
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Postby American Oyaji » Tue Mar 18, 2003 1:30 pm

Do you think perhaps they chose her on purpose?
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Re: Sort of similar

Postby GomiGirl » Tue Mar 18, 2003 2:53 pm

Marvin wrote:Nothing to do with Usa, but a true story I can verify and is sorta similar in tone.
Some years ago, I used to work for a Japanese government body that had close ties to JET, which was then in its infancy. A rather prominent women's rights activist from Down Under was selected to take part in the program.
Her placement was decided by an Australian (not me), who put her in a Mie Prefecture municipality called Shira (now Shirahama).
Pronounced by a Japanese Shira sounds very similar to sheila, the Strine slang word for woman and an anethema to feminists.
The poor feminist had to live for a year in a town with a name that, each time she heard it, must have grated up her spine the way that hearing fingernails being run along a blackboard does for most people.

...perhaps I'd better get to work.


Very funny.. but the word sheila has never worried me.. but I can hardly be called a feminist.. :roll:
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