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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/11/2025 13:14, John Clark wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at
5:42 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a
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Chairman.That used to be what we called female chairmen,
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<div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>It could be
argued that <span class="gmail_default" style="">"L</span>ady
<span class="gmail_default" style="">C</span>hairman<span
class="gmail_default" style="">" is self-contradictory
nonsense, unless you're talking about a
hermaphrodite. </span>How about <span
class="gmail_default" style="">C</span>hairwoman<span
class="gmail_default" style="">? 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. </span></b></font></div>
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class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div>
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It could. If you assume that words containing 'man' refer only to
biological males (they don't). That's what got us into this mess in
the first place. That's what leads to silliness like 'peoplekind',
'salesperson', and I'm just waiting for someone to insist we should
talk about 'personagement' instead of management. And "person your
posts!". Someone should sue Manpower the recruitment agency for
having a discriminatory title, no?
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Ben</pre>
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