From: utzoo!watmath!kgdykes Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: ...chairperson Article-I.D.: watmath.2964 Posted: Thu Jul 8 05:28:28 1982 Received: Thu Jul 8 06:44:52 1982 Then there is the problem: A report is being made about the referee(?) of a committee making some sexist decision Then, doesn't gender become significant in any reporting? ie: it should be called chair[man|woman] rather than chairwhatever to help give background to the sexist action that means that not only do we have to create a whole new set of gender-less words but retain the gender-ed ones too! for there WILL be situations were gender DOES count - as much as the anti-sexists would want otherwise.