There are 'master' and 'slave' devices and 'male' and 'female' connections
all over every branch of electronics ... if they took those terms away we'd all be fucked.

They'll be banning SCSI for being offensive to dirty slappers next.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:32, archived)

first time my music teacher asked me if I needed a male or female plug
I though he was joking.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:34, archived)

I was told about this "rule" over 6 years ago
it's not new. It's older than the "It's no longer a blackboard, it's a chalkboard" thing.
( Jenk Neptune is a pedant and now I can't fit my sig in, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:34, archived)

Ummm ... no it isn't.
The blackboard/chalkboard legend was in the daily mail when I was still at high school some time in the mid-to-late eighties.

And this 'rule' isn't a 'rule' ... it's bollocks.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 13:39, archived)