Am I misogynistic?
Did a presentation at work to a wider team of 50 people. In one of my slides, I wrote “this project will take 3 months (man hours)”. Apparently someone complained internally by my use of gender words and my manager told me to just be more careful next time. Have we reached a new low in corporate America?
Attack-helicopter hours
You are the victim here. “Man hours” is a valid phrase. What next? Being reported for manpower? Or supporting Manchester United? What about management? Or manned missions to other satellites/planets? Was the WWE wrestler Mankind misogynistic too? A lot of snowflakes are coming out of the woodwork under the garb of sexism.
I support womanchester divided
You in SF? If so you’re a misogynist, racist, bigot, communist, homophobe, sexist, agist, conservative, and a dick in general. If not then totally ok.
Someone should get up and say "...or only 2 months in woman hours".
Yeah! Sexism makes the world better!
Better than saying 6 months. 3 months of women hour getting nothing done and 3 months of man hours to finish it.
People have been using “person hours” for the last 20 years; get with the program.
How about just hours?
Just hours is ambiguous as to whether you mean staffing levels or calendar time.
So you can’t say man hours in a meeting but references to master and slave configurations is still kosher.
Not really. I found a thread on hacker news the other day where someone was describing a master/slave architecture and the person replied with a rant on how it is incredibly offensive and one should use leader/follower.
You should have just written “labor hours”, irrespective of who is doing it, man woman or a donkey!
“Person hours” is more accurate. This has been in widespread use for more than 25 years. No big deal to make the switch and sound less dated.
☝️☝️seriously it's not that hard. Stop whining and worrying about your ego.
If you say woman hour in your next presentation, you will probably get more complaints and get yourself screwed seriously. Work hour, Human hour came to my mind.
Yeah, next time just write "they hours"
I take offense. I am singular. You must use a singular pronoun.
According to Wikipedia, you shouldn't be really offended, as "they" doesn't violate your singularity starting somewhere from 14th century. Again, if your official DOB happens to be earlier than that, I will sincerely apologise for my ignorance.