Stardate 20011113.1240 (On Screen):Nothing could have prepared the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board for the role that has been thrust upon her.
That's the first line of this report. Know what I find most notable about it? "Chairwoman." Have we finally consigned that unbelievably stupid construction "chairperson" to the ash heap of Political Correctness? Can "person" go back to meaning "a human whose sex is not known to the speaker"? Has the American Press finally decided that it doesn't have to be ashamed of the fact that half our population is female? Have American women finally decided to be proud of their sex? One can only hope. (discuss)
The women of my generation individually like being female but collectively hate it. Thankfully, it seems as if that particular pathology has not been passed on to the younger generation. Women the age of my niece don't seem to think that life played a dirty trick on them.
