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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3446485, member: 9403"] Touche. I'm guessing you've never been to Kelso or Grants Pass if you think those are places to "get out" to. But the funny thing is that most of your examples aren't feminizing modifiers, they are ones where the underlying nouns are [I]inherently[/I] gendered. For instance, a "Don" is a male honorific, so "Donna" is a necessarily gendered analog to refer to a female Don. Same is true for Kings/Queens, Lad/Lassie, Billygoats/Nannies, and Lumberjacks/Lumberjills. And since a Bull is a male member of the taurus genus, a Lady Bull is a pretty funny contradiction in terms -- no such thing exists in nature, and yet I assume they didn't want their women's team to be referred to as the "Cows"! By contrast, there is absolutely nothing intrinsically gendered about a Panther, and so no need to create the awkward gendered neologism "Pantherette." Lady Farmer is similarly hilarious, unless we think farmers were all historically celibate men. [/QUOTE]