When Intolerance Becomes Intolerable
Link (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/business/smallbusiness/02shift.html?ref=business)
6/2/2008
"It all started in 1993 with a diversity training seminar at what was then Bell Atlantic, where Ms. Sherman was a vice president for marketing. She kept the fact that she was a lesbian to herself at work because, she said, she worried that being openly gay would derail her career. She was, by her own account, a master at what she calls the "black art of pronoun puppetry, substituting 'him' and 'we' for 'her' and 'she.' "