Talk:Gender-neutral language
[edit] This seems like a good place to post this.
I recently discovered this sentence in an article:
"Goffin has played with other known musicians as a side-woman.
I linked it (side-woman) to the sideman article but am wondering if "side-woman" is a real word or if "sideman" is actually one of those unfortunate sort of gender neutral words that we learn to live with. Einar aka Carptrash (talk)
[edit] "Chairman"?
In the initial paragraph "chairman" is given as the first example of a "gendered" noun, whereas many people contend that the "man" in that case simply means "person", as it often did until the late 20th century. For example, the definition on dictionary.com doesn't mention men at all. I know many people disagree but isn't it rather a bad example to have in the opening paragraph, particularly as the very first example of all? 80.254.146.20 (talk) 14:01, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
