From: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: genderless usage
Article-I.D.: watmath.2987
Posted: Sun Jul 11 18:09:11 1982
Received: Mon Jul 12 04:37:00 1982
References: ihuxk.121

The only reason terms like actor and waiter got feminine forms is because
those jobs were commonly held by women as well as men in the early days
of women in the labour force.  There are no 'bakeresses because there were
no female bakers when the names were invented.