Vindication?
For most of my adult life, I have thrown emotional hissy fits whenever the words "woman" or "women" are used in front of a profession. Besides sounding idiotic, it is:
- grammatically incorrect to use as an adjective;
- not used conversely when people speak of a man doctor, for example;
- unless it's a male prostitute, which is grammatically correct.
I have been on a quite fruitless mission to change the way of the world by sharing this deeply held conviction as loudly as I can. This morning, I realized I've been fighting the wrong fight. In the AJC today:
Then again, this is the AJC...
It's not quite the victory I was looking for, but it's something. If we're all going to get dumber together, let's at least be fair about it.
From now on, whenever I get arrested by a man or woman police officer, I'll consult my man lawyer before I mouth off at the man judge. It's okay. He's used to it.
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