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> Well, the generally-accepted term has been "salesman" for over a hundred years Who cares? Did your ancestors coin the term or something? You can keep writing
by root_axis 6y ago
> Well, the generally-accepted term has been "salesman" for over a hundred years
Who cares? Did your ancestors coin the term or something? You can keep writing "salesman" whenever you write things yourself. "Salesperson" doesn't seem at all offensive, and I think it's bizarre to nitpick such a trivial and irrelevant aspect of the article. It reads to me like political virtue-signaling since the article has nothing to do with the gender of the traveling agent.
- mmm_grayons 6y agoI wasn't complaining about the use of the term, I was simply rebutting the parent's claim that the framing of "salesperson" as the deviant term rather than "salesman" was disingenuous given that "salesman" is the status quo.