{"id":5131,"date":"2012-11-29T13:10:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2012-11-29T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:10:45","slug":"homophobia-dropped-from-ap-stylebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5131","title":{"rendered":"‘Homophobia’ Dropped from AP Stylebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the upcoming update to The Associated Press’ online stylebook<\/a>, the suffix “-phobia” “should not be used ‘in political or social contexts,’ including ‘homophobia’ and ‘Islamophobia.’ <\/p>\n

AP Deputy Standards Editor Dave Minthorn explains the move:<\/p>\n

\u201cHomophobia especially<\/a> \u2014 it\u2019s just off the mark. It\u2019s ascribing a mental disability to someone, and suggests a knowledge that we don\u2019t have. It seems inaccurate. Instead, we would use something more neutral: anti-gay, or some such, if we had reason to believe that was the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be precise and accurate and neutral in our phrasing,\u201d he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If current argumentative trends apply here, this move will be described as homophobic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the upcoming update to The Associated Press’ online stylebook, the suffix “-phobia” “should not be used ‘in political or social contexts,’ including ‘homophobia’ and ‘Islamophobia.’ AP Deputy Standards Editor Dave Minthorn explains the move: \u201cHomophobia especially \u2014 it\u2019s just off the mark. It\u2019s ascribing a mental disability to someone, and suggests a knowledge that … Continue reading ‘Homophobia’ Dropped from AP Stylebook<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-press","category-writing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}