sexist filter

Quintab · #1 (**permalink**) 12-08-2004

Many years ago while I was in college, there was a 'sexist' filter on our 3B2 to change words with sexual content to a more political correct form. eg: 'mailman' to 'postal carrier', 'policeman' to 'police officer' , etc. I believe it was part of the DWB, but I'm not sure. Can anyone point me to a source for the scripts or similiar to make substitutions in texts?

zazzybob · #2 (**permalink**) 12-08-2004

Hmm... I have never heard of anything like this and couldn't turn anything up during a quick google, but it'd be fairly straightforward (if not lengthy) to write your own.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

while (<>) {
  $_=~s/Mailman/Postal Carrier/gi;
  $_=~s/Mailwoman/Postal Carrier/gi;
  print "$_";
}

Then
$ ./filter.pl my_sexist_file

Unfortunately, you'd need to add a ton of rules covering all sexist eventualities! It'd probably run as slow as hell once you've got a few rules in there too.

Cheers
ZB

Quintab · #3 (**permalink**) 12-08-2004

Yes, you are one the right track. As I recall, there were several files. A script file as a front-end and 'translation files'. One of which was call 'sexist'. The file had two columns. One for the word to be replaced and the other for the translation.

locustfurnace · #4 (**permalink**) 12-08-2004

One of the dictionary scripts for VIM probaly could do this. Again, you may have to do the writeup as well. But then you could add

Bad words || Good words
------------------------------
mailman - postal carrier
copper - Law Enforcement Agent

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=195

Though, not a Unix program, this program is called Newspeak 2.1: Politically Correct Translator
Description: Newspeak automatically edits your writing to make it:
either (a) Old Fashioned & Beautiful.
or (b) fashionable and politically correct.

Quintab · #5 (**permalink**) 12-29-2004

Please see the following link:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/...vingLinux.html

It appears that it was the 'Writer's WorkBench' I was thinking of. The GNU version does not include a sexist filter, but I will give it a look. Thanks to all who responded.

Perderabo · #6 (**permalink**) 01-02-2005

Quote:

Originally posted by Quintab
It appears that it was the 'Writer's WorkBench' I was thinking of.

I think you may have had it right the first time. I have the original DWB manuals in front of me. Good thing that I didn't post earlier with a guess as to what DWB meant. These books are labelled "UNIX System V Documenter's Workbench". They describe the following programs: mm, troff, sroff, nroff, tbl, pic, and eqn.

I have throughout all of my unix text processing docs. I can't find any mention of a sexist filter. The style/diction/explain programs came out later. They, as supplied, do not address sexist constructs. With a non-standard data file, I suppose that they could.

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