Chairperdaughter
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by Niket
We were having a conversation recently: “we” referring to four guys and three non-sampoorna women.
One of the non-sampoorna women heads a certain sub-committee. She politely asked one (older male) faculty to stop addressing her as “chairman,” but use a gender-neutral “chairperson,” instead. The male faculty said something to the effect that this was carrying political correctness too far. To which, she replied:
“Chairperson” is not carrying it too far. If I really want to carry it too far, I will ask you to refer me as “chairperdaughter.” I don’t even want the “son” in “person.”
Thankfully the English language treats chair as a Neuter gendered noun or else that might also have to be changed.
Hilarious!