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Back in college I had a history professor who insisted that the Victorians were
obsessed with sex...why else would they put skirts on piano legs (on the
assumption, I guess, that pianos are female!). If mine has a gender, it ain't
talkin!
Jo Byrd
Philip Sharman wrote:
> >Worst example I've encountered was a gov't purchasing agent who found the
> terms 'male' and 'female' for describing connectors on computer cables
> offensive.
>
> On that theme ... a company I worked for once had to stop referring to
> "mounting a drive" because some customers took that the wrong way. (It makes
> one wonder exactly what they pictured when they heard that phrase, doesn't
> it?)
>
> Philip.
