🚀 go-pugleaf

Geoff Miller (geoffm@Eng.Sun.COM) once again demonstrates why
I find his posts to be among the most sensible in this or any 
other universe:

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: > Bob Christ told me about the lady sheriff of Boulder Creek. This woman
: > does a difficult job extremely well. She lays her life on the line in
: > ways you or I couldn't even begin to imagine. I'd just as soon not
: > use a word which implies she doesn't exist. 

: She's a *policewoman.*  End of problem.  Do you feel that since animals
: of both sexes are covered by the term "goose," the status of male geese
: is somehow lessened by the existence of the term "gander?"  That's a
: similar situation, albeit with the sexes reversed.

: By the way, a perusal of the dictionary will reveal that the -man
: suffix common to so many words derives from the Old English meaning
: of "man," which meant simply "person."  


I have to agree with everything Geoff has said, I'm afraid. 

But just in case anyone is thinking we are in league 'cause we are
folks with dicks, or indeed reckons I'm a faggot trying to crawl up
his butt (now *there's* a striking image), I can reveal we have a 
member of the folks with vaginas on our side.

Amanda, who works alongside me as a Doorman, and who most definitely 
doesn't have a dick (I told her I'd be willing to let her use mine for 
a while, but she declined), stoutly, resolutely and absolutely refuses 
to be called anything other than a Doorman. 

She ain't a Doorwoman a Doorperson or a Bounceress. Nope, she's a Doorman 
and proud of it.

Jon