Our thanks to Mike P for this. Excerpts:
It is fondly known as the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. But the Bank of England may have to lose its nickname under plans for the 323-year-old institution to go gender neutral.
The Prudential Regulation Authority, part of the bank which polices financial firms, said it wants to ‘remove gendered language to encourage equality and diversity’.
It will ditch the title ‘chairman’ and instead use the gender-neutral ‘chair’ and also plans to stop using ‘his’ and ‘her’ when referring to senior figures in its reports…
Nicky Morgan, a Conservative MP and relentlessly sexist blithering idiot, the former Cabinet minister who heads the Treasury select committee, has twice warned in recent months that the Bank needed to improve diversity at the top of its organisation.
I may have added a few words there, but I don’t think anyone with an IQ above that of an intoxicated fruit bat would find them inaccurate.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
I am glad to see that this is being done in the name of equality and gender diversity.
I now Confidently look forward to shortly seeing references to:
Father Nature,
Father ship, (space)
fatherlode,
brother organisation
every fathers son
father’s knee (to learn at)
necessity is the father of invention
father of pearl
father boards (computers)
father’s boy
father tongue
father of yeast.
And last but certainly not least I fully expect to see the Bank of England described as:
‘The old Gentleman of Threadneedle Street’.
Surely I will not be disappointed will I ?
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But did they ask the bank how it self identified first?
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The gender neutral fad seems to be spreading through the national institutions at an exponentially increasing rate. Who or what is driving it. Is Common Purpose behind it?
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There is normally something sturdy about an old lady. Do we not want our national bank to be sturdy?
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