Re: Fireperson? No!

Phil is starting to teach me to fire the little oil fired Vulcan here at the PCRR...and while I have a very LOOOONGGG way to go to even be the least bit proficient on that, I would be a Student Fireman, not a Student Fireperson...Fireman is the traditional job title and in no way reflects on the person who does it.
It reminded me of the Pharoahs of Egypt - Cleopatra was a pharoah, not a pharoah-ess or other non-sense. That was her job and her rank. If history is correct, she was a good ruler and while she put her female qualities to work in her duties, in her case, that may not have been all together a bad thing. In the working world, it is really about being respected for what you can do and not what you look like or what your basic anatomy might be. PC and equality might go so far as being able to be called by the proper and correct job title, rather than a silly made up one.
Many guys forget that while the males dominated and apparently still do dominate the workforce in railroading, there is a history of women willing and able to perform the hard, dirty work. Really nothing new, just a little rare still. As long as that is the case, I guess those chunks of coal will still go sailing at the heads of the uneducated.