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She thinks that these norms are highly insulting for a woman and a number of new words are also recommended such as: chairperson, spokesperson, firefighter, mailcarrier, etc., as substitutes for the "sexist" words in common use.
Sense & Sensuality 2009
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Unlike the true female heroes of the West (Ida Wells, Molly Brown, even Mary Fields, the rifle-toting mailcarrier of Montana), she doesn't fight for the collective good.
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"Of course the stuff we build," Ross said diffidently, "can't compare with a commercial unmanned rocket, say like a mailcarrier.
Rocket Ship Galileo Heinlein, Robert A. 1947
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