Seeing as "Maestro" is a gender specific term, should there be a seperate title for female Answerbaggers who reach level 60?
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That sounds fair... but what about the people who prefer to be genderless on Answerbag?
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No, but I would support a work-camp for people who are overly PC.
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To the best of my knowledge, in English, Maestro is not gender-specific. There is no "maestra". -
In Italian, a maestro is a male teacher, a maestra is a female teacher, so it is a gender specific term. But since this is an English language site, how about: Diva, Goddess, Empress, Queen, or 'da Bomb'!
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I believe the many female maestros by profession would disagree with you there!
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As far as I know Maestro is non-gender specific. I would think that the female "Maestros" would be called just that. I also tried to google it and ask.com it and nothing came up. Dictionary.com says: A master in an art, especially a composer, conductor, or music teacher. When I google the words 'female maestro' I get tons of links, and the females are all referred to as Maestro. In the english word Maestro is both male and female.
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I thought a Maestro meant a teacher of music,being a musician myself,why would that be a good title for a non-musician on answerbag anyways? Oh...I guess it can mean master of an art.The master of the art of asking and answering questions on answerbag.Interesting.I really see no gender specifics here.
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Well its definitly NOT gender neutral. Not only does it refer to a man (and commonly used in a field that is notorious for discrimination against women) but a female version of the word doesn't even exist! I am of course refering to the commonly accepted usage of "Maestro" as meaning "conductor". There is no "maestra" because there are so few female conductors that they haven't even come up with a way to address them yet. Calling a woman "maestro" is like calling them "sir".
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In the Spanish language, "maestro" is a male teacher and "maestra" is a female teacher. So, the title would be maestra.
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