Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw From: throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: what to call a female wizard? Message-ID: <1778@dg_rtp.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 15:01:53 EDT Article-I.D.: dg_rtp.1778 Posted: Tue Apr 28 15:01:53 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Apr-87 02:18:46 EDT References: <258@root44.root.co.uk> Lines: 25 > nga@root.co.uk (Nick Armitage) > i was wondering what you call a female wizard. i asked > several male wizards who happened to be to hand and also > a female wizard (but i don't know what i should call her). Gosh, that's hard. I have another one just as hard. What should one call a female fire fighter? Or how about, what should one call a female athlete, huh? Tell me that? What about female postal workers? Maybe we should have special names for female CEOs, and female managers, and female ditch-diggers. And what about all those female pilots out there? We should have a special term for them too, right? Maybe "aviatrix" will work. Gosh, there's so many places where we need new female versions of things. Dog catcher, hot-dog vendor, engineer (both software and otherwise), physiscist, politician, ringmaster, venture capatalist, opera singer, window washer, electrician, plumber... you know, *ALL* of these seem insufficently sexist somehow. Somebody'll just *HAVE* to find female versions of all of them, that's all there is to it. -- I'll meet you tonight under the moon. Oh, I can see you now -- you and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know you. --- Groucho Marx in "The Cocoanuts" -- Wayne Throop !mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw