This is an actual letter I sent a few years ago that got published elsewhere, but not on the Reagan Wing. I share it now for your edification and personal growth.
Dear Running Times,
I just read a running shoe review wherein you used the word “craftspersonship” in describing the construction of a shoe.
Of course, it goes without saying, you had to remove the chauvinistic “craftsmanship” because it contained the sexist word “man,” but in doing so you made a common mistake by using a word containing the word “person.” You see, the word “person” contains the 
sexist word “son,” clearly also male. Instead of “person” you might simply repeat the first half of the sub-word (“per”) which is neutral and acceptable. So you could, then, praise or deplore a shoe’s “crafts-per-per-ship.” You might, however, find that some, there at Running Times, object to the unfamiliarity of the term “per-per” or it’s tendency to sound ridiculous and infantile, so you might be tempted to try some common alternatives, like “crafts-someone-ship,” “crafts-mortal-ship,” or “crafts-homo-sapiens-ship,” (which sound ridiculous but not infantile) but we strongly recommend against it. You see, although those sub-words are not racist or sexist, you run into the kinds of problems that usually follow from using words that actually mean something (as opposed to nonsense phrases like “per-per”). In this case those words are species-ist. They apply presumptively to human beings (or should I say hu-per beings?) and, thus discriminate against other life forms like skunks and rats. If you must attempt to use words that mean things we recommend “crafts-organism-ship,” but caution should always be taken when speaking intelligibly, it is so easy to offend. If you say “per-per,” by contrast, you won’t be making a “boo-boo.”
Doug Parris,
Editor
The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The `polish and pipeclay’ school is not yet extinct, and it is easier for the mediocre intelligence to become an authority on buttons, than on tactics.
- Captain Sir Basil Liddel Hart, in Thoughts on War, 1944
In my corporate life, I was being considered and interviewed by the Executive Committee for a position of increased responsibility and money and one of the Committee members said, “I think Michele St. Pierre is the best man for the job!”
An embarrassed silence fell and the man said, “Oh, I hope I didn’t insult you!”
I told him no, to the contrary, I thought it was a high compliment…:-)
I am reminded of that scene from Life of Brian.