You pretty much can&#x27;t win in that culture. You&#x27;re a man, so you can&#x27;t even grasp what it&#x27;s like to be a woman, but trust us, it&#x27;s horrible. And if you wouldn&#x27;t mind if it were &quot;sis&quot;, that&#x27;s because you haven&#x27;t been oppressed by women.<p>I understand there are gender issues, but if you have to overcorrect so much that you&#x27;re changing an abbreviation to avoid the short form of &quot;brother&quot;, you&#x27;ve gone wrong.<p>I am very thankful that my culture doesn&#x27;t have this gender hostility and easy offense that&#x27;s prevalent mostly in the US.