_ _ _-men. _ _ _-women?

Long ago, when I was in the Boy Scouts, a very funny little kid named Tommy Quimby looked very serious as he said "I'm a leg man." He was talking about women, not business or journalism, and I laughed so hard I nearly peed: Tommy wasn't any older than eleven, and he looked considerably younger.

(Tommy later went on to have part of his face ripped off by a German Shepherd that jumped through a screen door while he was delivering a newspaper. Surgeons were able to sew his upper lip back on to his face, but the lip was effectively dead, stiff and immovable; his trumpet-playing days were over forever. Incidentally, he was in the same after-school horn class as me. I played the French horn, if you were wondering, and did it very badly. But I digress. )

Anyway: it sounds a little old-fashioned now (for some reason it sounds very 1940s to me), but over the years I've heard men describe themselves as leg men, breast men, etc. etc.. I've never used such an expression myself, partly because I would find it hideously embarrassing, partly because it's horribly sexist, and most of all because I wouldn't be able to pick any particular part as better than the others. I like them all.

But it strikes me that as far as I know, women never use that particular sort of language about men. I suppose they wouldn't be likely to use that sort of language around me (or any man, I suppose), but I've never even read about women saying something like "I'm a _ _ _-woman."

Do women say that? If they do, I have to wonder what parts they'd pick.

_ _ _-men. _ _ _-women?

Long ago, when I was in the Boy Scouts, a very funny little kid named Tommy Quimby looked very serious as he said "I'm a leg man." He was talking about women, not business or journalism, and I laughed so hard I nearly peed: Tommy wasn't any older than eleven, and he looked considerably younger.

(Tommy later went on to have part of his face ripped off by a German Shepherd that jumped through a screen door while he was delivering a newspaper. Surgeons were able to sew his upper lip back on to his face, but the lip was effectively dead, stiff and immovable; his trumpet-playing days were over forever. Incidentally, he was in the same after-school horn class as me. I played the French horn, if you were wondering, and did it very badly. But I digress. )

Anyway: it sounds a little old-fashioned now (for some reason it sounds very 1940s to me), but over the years I've heard men describe themselves as leg men, breast men, etc. etc.. I've never used such an expression myself, partly because I would find it hideously embarrassing, partly because it's horribly sexist, and most of all because I wouldn't be able to pick any particular part as better than the others. I like them all.

But it strikes me that as far as I know, women never use that particular sort of language about men. I suppose they wouldn't be likely to use that sort of language around me (or any man, I suppose), but I've never even read about women saying something like "I'm a _ _ _-woman."

Do women say that? If they do, I have to wonder what parts they'd pick.