EXACTLY!!!! WHO in the HELL cares what those 9% think? they seem to have their fingers into just about everything and they seem to make the rules as they go...... personally I say F'CK EM, and I mean FK EM ALL!!! they are the reason no one opens the door for your Mom or your wife....they are at the source of the words POLITICALLY CORRECT...and I am fairly certain that MOST of them work in HR formerly known as "Person ell " typically comprised of people with some sort of socialization issue and a definite Axe to grind along with a healthy dose of Napoleon Syndrom....so they try to make everyone adhere to their IDIOTIC RULES that they make up as they go along ODDLY enough and coincidental as it is, most of them are female and of that group a large percentage are either very homely, DYKE-IE, prestigiously overweight and educated just enough to be dangerous BUT not enough to see that what they are doing is a ridiculous waste of life and time......
I make a point of going OUT of my way to say nice things regardless of the rules these idiots have attempted to put into place.....NOT ONE single women outside of work I have called honey or sweetie or darlin in a nice way has ever said ANYTHING combative in return .... FUnny how that is