Re: Pet Peeves

["D. Michael McIntyre" <michael -dot- mcintyre -at- rosegardenmusic -dot- com>]

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 4:39 am, Geoff Lane wrote:
> and ban male and female
> mating components - even though these have been industry standard
> terms for ages

True story.  My dad found himself on the pointy end of a sexual harassment 
lawsuit over that very issue.  It didn't go all the way to court, but she 
made him sweat for a long time over a completely innocent command to "insert 
the male plug into the female receptacle," or something along very similar 
lines.  He does tech support, and deals with people for whom all this 
electronic stuff is a total mystery.  She had no idea his words were 
innocent, and put him through a lot of misery over it.

Caveat scriptor.  Know thine audience.
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