Toss-pots among us…

So, every month at work I bang out a newsletter full of random work stuff. Today I sent the latest September newsletter out to the work masses and instantly received a long-winded email back from a toss-pot in accounts payable telling me that I had offended all of womankind – he’s a man – well, I think he’s a man...probably he is – and due to my offense worlds would collide, fish would fall from the sky and it was very likely I’d brought back the bubonic plague. Why? Because I indicated in a sales situation never to ignore a woman because women have a lot of power when it comes to making decisions. No brainer right? Well, toss-pot felt that was derogatory to women and I should be spoken to severely. I rolled my eyes so hard they almost disappeared into my skull. I then got an email from a senior toss-pot male questioning my using the words ‘woman’ and ‘female’ and how this could cause other women to get upset and you know the whole worlds-colliding-thing-you're-naughty-go-directly-to-jail. Uh-huh. Here's what I think - by all means tell me your opinion and I'll tell you mine and that is in an effort to be politically correct and touchy-feely, new age sensitive to all some people don't pay attention to what is being said. Women aren't made out of bone china and we can read words and make our own judgements without a man telling us that he perceives women will be upset at the words 'female' and 'woman'....you know we have heard those words before...you know...'cause we're women, females, girls...