Madam chairman is just as silly.

@Ellatynemouth I didnt’ say I was Madam Chairman, I said wanted to be called Chairman, just as my predecessor was, and a woman who was chairman of an organisation had been traditionally called Madam Chairman for more that a century when she was being addressed directly, I wasn’t making up a silly title. What I wanted was not to be called some new politically correct name such as an inanimate object i.e. “ a chair”, which is not even silly it is insulting. If Hilary Clinton had become President she would have been addressed as Madam President. Do you understand the analogy?

@Marionville

You are blaming people for a problem that is not of their making.

It takes very little effort to become accustomed to 'chair'. Personally, I would be grateful for the olive branch.

@Ellatynemouth We will just have to differ on this one. Your opinion is valued that’s why we are all here, to take on board other points of view. However, this was not a hypothetical argument it was an actual event that happened in my life, and I find it surprising that you think I should just have accepted being called a chair. I didn’t and I was never called that, but just plain Chairman. So they actually saw my point of view even if you don’t.

Nah, I think "blackboard" lost favor when they became green and white, with the invention of the porcelain coating in the 1980s. If you are also silently grumping about "slingshot" or "Brazil nuts", you are an actual racist. Get with it, Marionville, what we call things and what we name things do reflect our values and we should try to listen to our better angels. Is your problem with the term "chairperson" or are you actually holding on to expired notions of women in society?

@TravelinTom You could not be more wrong, I am most certainly not racist and when I said we used words that were racist in the past I was talking about society and not me personally. I believe and always have believed that everyone is born equal regardless of colour, and my humanist principles would not allow me to do otherwise. I have no idea what slingshot and Brazil nuts refers to as they are new expressions to me. I am not American so am assuming if I was I might know their meaning. As for expired notions of women in society, all I ever want men and women to be are equal, unfortunately progress is painfully slow. As an atheist I’m surprised to hear you refer to angels, better or otherwise. It seems you are the one who is holding on to expired notions !!