<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>

  
    
  
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    <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>It could be
                argued that <span class="gmail_default">"L</span>ady
                <span class="gmail_default">C</span>hairman<span class="gmail_default">" is self-contradictory
                  nonsense, unless you're talking about a
                  hermaphrodite. </span>How about <span class="gmail_default">C</span>hairwoman<span class="gmail_default">? 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></blockquote>
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    <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>It could. If you assume that words containing 'man' refer only to
    biological males (they don't).</i></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>It's ambiguous,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't refer exclusively to a male, but it <u>NEVER</u> refers exclusively to a female. Do you think that sort of asymmetry and ambivalence is a good thing? You've never spelled it out, what exactly is your objection to the word "chairwoman", why does it make you so angry? </span> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b style="">John K Clark</b></span><br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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