[ARC5] Gender, markets and history

[Ben Hall]

On 11/18/2015 8:13 PM, Brian wrote:
> Yeah right, Ben,
>
> And of course, these three had final sign-off on WWII purchase
> decisions. They probably weren't even born then.

Of course not, Brian.

> Perhaps you missed my point about the male chauvinistic product designs
> the military purchased around WWII - which are the sets we started this
> thread with, eg, the S-38 and its clones.

I didn't miss your point.  Perhaps you are forgetting exactly what you 
wrote:

"name just one recent female military purchasing executive."

Note the word "recent."

If your intent was to ask about female procurement officers in WWII, 
there were none, and I would never have responded.  However, you 
specifically said "recent."

I take "recent" to mean "having happened, begun, or been done not long 
ago or not long before; belonging to a past period of time comparatively 
close to the present."

Perhaps your definition of the word differs; certainly our two versions 
of the English language have some words with very different meanings. 
IE:  mate, Barbie, thongs, etc...  Wouldn't be the first time a word 
with a different meaning in two places caused errant communication.

My response was absolutely clear in specifying that I was addressing the 
current time.  Note my lead-in:

"It's much different today..."

So clearly, I was NOT referring to the WWII time frame.

Given the above, your snarky response absolutely puzzles me...

thanks and 73,
ben, kd5byb