--On Wednesday, April 14, 2021 10:57 -0500 Nico Williams
<nico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 09:19:58AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter
> wrote:
>> Completely agreed. But my concern is that the RFC Series as a
>> whole would look pretty stupid if (to take a strawman
>> example) the IETF
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> My daughter's future mother-in-law told me that some other
> lady she was talking to recently objected to the word
> 'strawman', much like some here object to MITM. Off with your
> head, Brian!
Out of curiosity, would she prefer "strawperson", "strawentity",
"Aunt Sally"? or how about "paper tiger", which doesn't mean
the same thing but might be close in some contexts.. and not
only is "tiger" not gender specific but I've never heard of
tigers taking specific offense about the names they are called
(although I somehow doubt that those tigers who speak human
languages would call themselves "tiger" so they might be
offended on that basis).
john
