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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/11/2025 20:52, spike wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><span class="gmaildefault"><b><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">What if the subway bum has XX chromosomes? </span></b></span><b><span
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Lady Chairman.<br>
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That used to be what we called female chairmen, before PC nonsense
infected everyone.<br>
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I've said this a million times before (don't exaggerate, Ben):
Discrimination is not words, it's deeds. Policing your language in
the expectation that it will solve the woes of the world is not only
naive and ineffective, it drains the joy out of life. It puts
stand-up comedians out of work, deprives you of proper Man-Sized
tissues, censors literature, makes for bland jam-jars, boring kid's
toys, gets professors dismissed for doing their jobs properly,
stigmatises irish/mother-in-law/etc. jokes, ignites stupid and
vicious arguments between people ... The depressing litany goes on
and on.<br>
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At least we can still poke fun at gingers, eh? Small mercies...
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Ben</pre>
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