But while it is urgent that our attitudes and language evolve, we also need to be patient with one another as we find ourselves in different stages of transition. Equality is not fostered by divisions in which we refuse to work, or pray, with those whose language we don't like. Shakespear's Juliet asked. That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. But names, or more precisely, sexist misnomers, just like sticks and stones, can break our bones.
Sexist words lack the fragrance of a rose, but they do have thorns.