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Originally Posted by maleficent
But couldn't the term chairperson be construed as masculine - -as the word SON is in it - and son is a male...  and you are excluding women... |
Maleficent, you're getting warm. The correct terminology is "chairperthing". Similarly, "person" should be replaced by "perthing".
One of my favourites is the word "manned" as in "manned spaceflight" or things like that. "Manned" in this case is derived from a Latin root meaning "hand", and the word basically means "controlled by hand" - nothing sexist about it at all.
One wonders when these ridiculously PC types will start insisting that other languages change their words that "sound or look wrong" to us English-speakers (or rather, to some of us), but that have completely PC-irrelevant meanings in their source language.