Edward Becerra wrote:

At 10:57 AM 6/28/99 -0500, The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:

"I will, I will," Ashly promised as she stopped flitting around the

room

and glued her eyes to the television set. On the screen was

Professoress

*choke*

PROFESSORESS!?

I hate to break it to you, but female professors are called
professors, the same as male professors. There's no such word as
'professoress'.

        This isn't QUITE true, Lurk. In some nations, the term
"Professora" is accepted as part of the language, and has been
for quite some time. It's only in politically correct countries
that the word has been abandoned.

Not true.  The "politically correct" countries went straight from not 
allowing women to be professors to just calling them the same thing any 
other professor is called, because by that time "poetess" and 
"authoress" had already been abandoned as pointless distinctions.

Probably the real issue with this story is that, given that gender roles 
aren't particularly important in the storyline (both sexes can be 
Pokemon trainers and don't relate to their Pokemon particularly 
differently based on their gender) does it really have anywhere to go 
except to retrace the steps of it's model?