[ExI] Gender-Neutral Side Note

[William Flynn Wallace]

I like Asimov's solution:  First Speaker.   bill w

On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> *> Lady Chairman.That used to be what we called female chairmen, before PC
>> nonsense infected everyone.*
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> *It could be argued that "Lady Chairman" is self-contradictory nonsense,
> unless you're talking about a hermaphrodite. How about Chairwoman? I admit
> that doesn't sound quite right but I think at least part of that is due to
> the fact that the word "woman" has two syllables but the word "man" only
> has one. *
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> *John K Clark*
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