h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I loved that a German uni (can't remember which one, maybe Dresden) when rewriting the uni articles of convention (or something) rewrote it all using the female pronoun because there are more female faculty staff than male.

The reaction online when Spiegel wrote an article was hilarious, so many men moaning about being referred to as "she".

What annoys me about the MRA reaction to the trousers thing is if they are that sure men are being disadvantaged by not being allowed to wear skirts they should feel very free to campaigno for that, I'm sure (since it will imply that women could also wear trousers) the women would fully support them. But no, it's much easier to snipe from the sidelines about how (white) male privelege is being eroded...

Going back to the bus drivers, I don't think that there is anything preventing men from wearing skirt uniforms... other than it's probably a bit outside their usual wear and feels odd because of that. So personal preference rather than regulation rules.
A couple of my daughter's male friends wear skirts on a regular basis. Not kilts, but skirts. And why not?

It's interesting that men in hot countries regularly wear a skirt-like garment, or even a full length 'dress'. In India they have dhotis, in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand they have sarongs. I believe there's something similar in Africa. In Arab countries, they have djellabas, gallabeyas and dishdashas. If hot countries recognise the practicality of these garments for men, what's wrong with men wearing them (or something similar) in hot weather in Europe, North America or anywhere else for that matter?

IN my last proper... only* proper job, we always used the female pronoun in our spec documents, to describe 'the user', 'she' etc., not quite sure why, it was just how they were all worded, so I kept to the same technique Well, asides anything it has to be one or the other 'he can....' 'she can....' etc, so I guess just* picking one pronoun to use at least made the documents all consistant

Then there is the naming of ships, planes, trains etc. And all who sail in HER. Where does that come from?

I thought it was because at one time, Old English retained the gender specific nouns for objects like the Romance languages do? And that while the gender specific nouns might have fallen out of use, the tradition of using female names might have stuck? I'm thinking of examples like Enola Gay, QE2, etc. I could be way off base, of course.