Ad hominem attacks (was Possible Change to the Main List Settings)

[Haggridd]

> Tom wrote:
> 
> > I may be wrong, but I'm thinking that Talisman might have been 
> > referring to a post from a few weeks ago that involved a soapbox 
> and 
> > general grumpiness which was, er, quite ostensibly of an ad 
hominem 
> > nature and is still present on the list.

I object to the gender bias of the term "ad hominem attack".  In 
this day when pieces of furniture-- chairs--  preside over meetings 
instead of chairmen, and there are no more actresses, only actors, 
why can we not use the more specific term, "ad feminem" attack when 
we are gunning for a human being with a 46XX chromosomal complement?

Haggridd