[40 Fl. oz.]

its about time!

[Marvin Feltcher]

Nothing to do with Usa, but a true story I can verify and is sorta similar in tone.
Some years ago, I used to work for a Japanese government body that had close ties to JET, which was then in its infancy. A rather prominent women's rights activist from Down Under was selected to take part in the program.
Her placement was decided by an Australian (not me), who put her in a Mie Prefecture municipality called Shira (now Shirahama).
Pronounced by a Japanese Shira sounds very similar to sheila, the Strine slang word for woman and an anethema to feminists.
The poor feminist had to live for a year in a town with a name that, each time she heard it, must have grated up her spine the way that hearing fingernails being run along a blackboard does for most people.

...perhaps I'd better get to work.

[American Oyaji]

Do you think perhaps they chose her on purpose?

[GomiGirl]

Nothing to do with Usa, but a true story I can verify and is sorta similar in tone.
Some years ago, I used to work for a Japanese government body that had close ties to JET, which was then in its infancy. A rather prominent women's rights activist from Down Under was selected to take part in the program.
Her placement was decided by an Australian (not me), who put her in a Mie Prefecture municipality called Shira (now Shirahama).
Pronounced by a Japanese Shira sounds very similar to sheila, the Strine slang word for woman and an anethema to feminists.
The poor feminist had to live for a year in a town with a name that, each time she heard it, must have grated up her spine the way that hearing fingernails being run along a blackboard does for most people.

...perhaps I'd better get to work.

Very funny.. but the word sheila has never worried me.. but I can hardly be called a feminist..