I thought we'd all agreed to stop genderising stuff (although admittedly I did say barmaid the other day which was a bit cringe).

I thought we'd all agreed to stop genderising stuff (although admittedly I did say barmaid the other day which was a bit cringe). The only kind of chairman should be a weirdly useful superhero.

Cornwall Council debates use of word 'chairman'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98j1l8gn6xo.amp

I think the general rule is if chaps would prefer roles not to be defaulted to chairwoman for example, then probably best to de-gender it. I'm a male chairwoman doesn't sound good.

What do you do for a living? Me? Oh I'm a male scientistlady. What about you? Barlad.

@TheBreadmonkey I recall hearing ‘scientess’ on something, it was a black and white clip with that 1950s plummy voiceover style. Just looked it up and apparently it’s a word that exists. Gosh.

@aegir

Sounds like an absolutely massive scientist

@TheBreadmonkey The scientessiest scientrix! If we do want gendered terms (grammatical tradition be damned) we should use -trix and -tron instead. Everything would sound extra special then.