Andrew Suffield wrote: > If people address issues rather than personalitites then everything > you have said is completely irrelevant, because they aren't going to > be perturbed by the "speech" pattern of the people they are talking > to, so we can phrase things however we damn well please. You're conflating two things; the people *speaking* addressing issues rather than personalities and the people *listening* addressing issues rather than personalities. Even if the person speaking addresses issues, it is quite likely the person listening will perceive it as a personal attack. The person speaking should still be trying to address issues, and furthermore should make an effort to phrase it so that it will not be received as a personal attack by the recipient. Using abuse usually doesn't help get one's message across (occasionally it does, but not usually).
To get back to something *concrete*, would anyone find it sexist if the phrase was "So easy your secretary or your boss could use it"? This pairs a stereotypically male and a sterotypically female profession, both stereotypically clueless. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/