[serf]

if you don't like the use of the word girl, eh. I don't really like boy much, either, but it wouldn't offend me. 'Boy's night out', 'one of the boys', whatever. It's not professional, but tech companies tend to be pretty fringe on the word professional, anyway.

if you don't like the idea of giving a specific sex a discounted ticket for simply having been born with different genitalia , right on. I totally agree.

[penrod]

On the topic of annoying words, thank you for writing "sex" rather than "gender". I hate that stupid euphemism.

[EllaMentry]

The two words mean entirely different things...

[penrod]

Actually, not any more: http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/haig/publications_files/0...

"... the major expansion in the use of gender followed its adoption by feminists to distinguish the social and cultural aspects of differences between men and women (gender) from biological differences (sex). Since then, the use of gender has tended to expand to encompass the biological, and a sex/gender distinction is now only fitfully observed" [emphasis mine.]

"... gender has come to be adopted as a simple synonym, perhaps a euphemism, for sex by many writers who are unfamiliar with the term’s recent history."

[EllaMentry]

Read the paper and better understand what you just quoted...