Spokesperson. Just say spokesman or spokeswoman depending on the sex of the person. Seems kind of sexist to claim to be tolerant by changing the term wile refusing to use the term spokeswoman.
Why is it "sexist" to differentiate men from women anyway?
This was already happening in the mid-90s when colleges were gung-ho with their emphasis on political correctness. The required writing style guides from the time invariably had a section devoted to discontinuing the use of these words.
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@ToroidalBoat, I couldn't understand why a male couldn't be called a spokesman and a woman be called a spokeswoman with "spokesperson" being used only when the person in the position was unknown.
This was also the same time, other groups promoted inclusive langauge usage which boiled down to removing male references and keeping the female ones intact.
As a corollary and quasi-thread tax, I'll add the phrase "Digital content creator." Any time I see this, I interpret it as, "I post whatever I want on the internet in hopes the platform pays me for it."
I know some of them are probably creating legitimately wholesome, harmless content, but I always assume the worst when I see "content creator" anywhere.
I know someone who tried positing positive wholesome content on social media in an effort to make money that way, but I still associate the phrase with porn or laziness.
My workplace calls mistakes/result errors "coaching opportunities" which is more of that awful "soft" "friendly" corpo speak.
In the very limited instances when a mistake was made that wasn't serious enough to result in discipline or firing, I can see calling it a learning experience. Any other term or usage comes across as pretentious.
In the past, I may have mentioned the soft language teachers are encouraged to use instead of telling misbehaving kids to knock it off. Not all teachers seem to be on board with that because I know a number of teachers who couldn't wait to retire after their 30 years of service because bad student behavior is getting worse and the soft friendly approach to addressing the bad behavior isn't working at all.
Like "cisgender," it's another example of progressive retards inventing a word to try to make what's actually normal seem as though it's not the default when it very obviously is.
The first time someone asked me, "Whats your cisgender?" I had to look it up to even know how to answer the question.
(E: I can't spell.)
