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me. Frankly, I do not know why anybody wants to be politically correct. Being the sensitive kind of person that I am, I am going to give it the old college try.
• I sat down with my wife and we began to figure out how that I, a very sensitive and politically correct person, could address somebody of the opposite gender.
• "I guess I can still call them women," I said with a degree of certainty in my voice.
• My wife looked at me and slowly shook her head. "I'm afraid that the word 'women,' is offensive to some of these politically correct individuals because the word ends in 'men,' which is a masculine gender."
• I looked at her and scratched my head vigorously.
• "It also applies," she continued, "with the word 'woman' because it also ends with the masculine 'man.'"
• I never really gave this much thought before. It never occurred to me that the last three letters of a word could be offensive to someone to the point that they are offended by that word.
• "So," I said rather thoughtfully rubbing my chin, "I will have to begin calling those individuals females." I smiled and thought I had come up with a solution. I looked at my wife to get her approval.
• Shaking her head, she said, "That word is not acceptable anymore, either. If you look at the word, you will find that it ends in the word 'male,' and as you know that is masculine."

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