Exactly. If you are smart enough to recognise that your choice of language is not ideal, it would be better to change it rather than try to justify it. Agree

Exactly. If you are smart enough to recognise that your choice of language is not ideal, it would be better to change it rather than try to justify it. Agree strongly with jwise0's well-crafted comment: the justification makes it worse. You recognise that this is a gendered word, which a group of people might be uncomfortable with, and yet you indicate that you are deliberately using it.