Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

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Subject: Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

From: "Thaddeus H. Black" <thb@debian.org>

Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:14:45 +0000

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My dissent three days ago against Margarita's General Resolution does not seem to appear in the web archive, nor have I seen a reply (which is fine). An infrequent poster, an infrequent Mutt user, having manually edited the header's In-Reply-To line, I probably posted the dissent wrong. Let's try again. If the original reached you three days ago, then please disregard this copy. (However, if this copy, too, does not appear in the web archive, then I will ask listmaster@lists.debian.org or file a bug as appropriate.) ------------------------------------------------------- Margarita: > Title: Replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout > the Debian Constitution > > All appearances of the word Chairman shall be > replaced with the word Chair. I oppose this and all efforts to emasculate the Debian Project. > The only gendered word left is the Chairman of the > Technical Committee. Good. I am glad that one word is still left. The English language does not want "ungendering." Your General Resolution will probably pass by a 10:1 margin, but I mean to vote no.