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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
My experience with "lady"-anything is that it's just a little to close to "little lady" (pat-pat on the head).
In the quotes I read, Resnick was stressing various things about the fact that the editor, who happened to be a woman, didn't complain about X, Y, or Z.
So his stressing the gender, at least in those comments, made sense. I think the women would have preferred "female" to "lady" (again, think "lady-pat-pat on the head"  ) |
That's exactly what I thought - that the use of "lady" in particular might not have been the most sensible choice over "female" or "woman", but that the distinction of female in this particular article made sense.