This is slightly OT from the semantics part, but I really have to express my disdain for the song 'Don't Trust Me' by the band 3OH!3. Here's a small article that sort of explains it:
http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/03/3oh3s-dont-trus.html
I hadn't heard of the song (lol i live in a caveololol) until I heard it on my iPod touch through the Tap Tap Revenge 2 app. I'd read the line ("Shush girl, shut your lips / Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips") before on Facebook and other sites and but I really didn't pay much attention to it. But after a while, I noticed it was pretty popular, especially amongst teenage girls.
Then it was just wtf.
What pisses me most about it is that it's misogynistic and teenage girls are the ones praising it. I know the song can be catchy, but really, how are you not insulted by a song like that? I know a lot of artists attack and make fun of events, people, whatever in their songs, but it's just damn special when a majority of those who like the song are those who are being insulted.
Why are many teenagers (I know it's not everyone, but let's face it, a lot of them listen to this shit and don't give a damn; that = kj;ewrkljk;') so stupid today that they listen and praise songs that insult and degrade them into nothing but sex symbols and what not? And I really doubt that the band 3OH!3 wrote it out of stupidity (well, okay, maybe they did as if you analyze the lyrics they make no sense what-so-ever) considering how their other songs also portray women in a negative light.
Blah, sorry if that didn't make sense whatsoever. I guess that pissed me off and other things <_< anyway, yeah.
This is the song for those who haven't heard it. Yeah, it sucks.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlTE5j7aEf0[/youtube]
Oh, and as for the male/female [insert occupation here], I agree that it wouldn't be fair to give a special title for a woman by adding female, and just the occupation title for the males, but perhaps, with the increase of women in the scientific field, this will be less of an issue in the future?